On random simplices in product distributions
- 1 March 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 17 (02) , 553-558
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021900200047380
Abstract
It is proved that the r-dimensional volume Vn of the r-simplex spanned by r + 1 sample points taken from the n-fold product distribution of a distribution F is asymptotically normal as n →∞.Keywords
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