On Fréchet means in simplex shape spaces

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 885-897

  Kume, Alfred ^a   Le, Huiling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fr chet mean shape; Simplex shape space

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SET THEORY;

EUCLIDEAN SPACES; FRECHET MEAN SHAPES; SIMPLEX SHAPE SPACES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 0344944944     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1067436325     Document Type: Article

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