On the variance of the number of extreme points of a random convex hull

Bruno Massé

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1999, vol. 44, issue 2, 123-130

Abstract: By an appropriate choice of the underlying law, the variance of the number of extreme points of the convex hull of n i.i.d. random points in the plane can be infinitely often as close to n2 as we want (as n grows to infinity).

Keywords: Random; convex; hull; Variance; Extreme; points (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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