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On the LLN for the number of vertices of a random convex hull
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2016
Abstract
For several common parent laws, the number of vertices of a sample convex hull follows a kind of law of large numbers. We exhibit an example of a parent law which contradicts a general conjecture about this matter.
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