The volume of a random simplex in an n-ball is asymptotically normal
- 1 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 14 (03) , 647-653
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021900200025936
Abstract
A proof is given of a conjecture in the literature of geometrical probability that the r-content of the r-simplex whose r + 1 vertices are independent random points of which p are uniform in the interior and q uniform on the boundary of a unit n-ball (1 ≦ r ≦ n; 0 ≦ p, q ≦ r + 1, p + q = r + 1) is asymptotically normal (n →∞) with asymptotic mean and variance and , respectively.Keywords
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