The convex hull of samples from self-similar distributions

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 34-47

  Hueter, Irene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convex hull; Renewal theorem; Self similar

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032593243     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1029954264     Document Type: Article

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