Limit theorems for the diameter of a random sample in the unit ball

Extremes

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 129-150

  Mayer, Michael ^a   Molchanov, Ilya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Convex hull; Extreme value; Interpoint distance; Poisson process; Random diameter; Random polytope

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549010088     PISSN: 13861999     EISSN: 1572915X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10687-007-0038-y     Document Type: Article

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