Abstract
Consider a process of identically-shaped (but not necessarily equal-sized) figures (e.g. points, clusters of points, lines, spheres) embedded at random in n-dimensional space. A simple technique is derived for finding the distribution of the distance from a fixed point, chosen independently of the process of figures, to the k th nearest figure. The technique also shows that the distribution is independent of the distribution of the orientations of the figures. It is noted that the distribution obtained above (for equal-sized figures) is identical to the distribution of the distance from a fixed figure to the k th nearest of a random process of points.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,General Mathematics,Statistics and Probability
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36 articles.
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