The distribution of the convex hull of a Gaussian sample
- 1 March 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 17 (03) , 686-695
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021900200033799
Abstract
The distribution of the convex hull of a random sample ofd-dimensional variables is described by embedding the collection of convex sets into the space of continuous functions on the unit sphere. Weak convergence of the normalized convex hull of a circular Gaussian sample to a process with extreme-value marginal distributions is demonstrated. The proof shows that an underlying sequence of point processes converges to a Poisson point process and then applies the continuous mapping theorem. Several properties of the limit process are determined.Keywords
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