THE CONVEX HULL OF A SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC SAMPLE

Using the isomorphism between convex subsets of Euclidean space and continuous functions on the unit sphere we describe the probability measure of the convex hull of a random sample. When the sample is spherically symmetric the asymptotic behavior of this measure is determined. There are three distinct limit measures, each corresponding to one of the classical extreme-value

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