The Chebyshev center: A multidimensional estimate of location (Q1073503)

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    The Chebyshev center: A multidimensional estimate of location (English)
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    1986
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    In this paper the center of the smallest k-dimensional sphere enclosing a data set, hereinafter called the Chebyshev center, is introduced as a multidimensional measure of location. The distribution of this estimator, which is a multidimensional generalization of the univariate midrange, is derived in the general case and its properties investigated for a host of distributions. The Chebyshev center is shown to be a maximum likelihood estimator for the center of a uniform distribution over a k-sphere and both unbiased and consistent for the multivariate spherical normal distribution and any spherical finite range distribution.
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    generalized midrange
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    covering k-sphere
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    spatial data
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    Chebyshev center
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    multidimensional measure of location
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    maximum likelihood estimator
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    uniform distribution over a k-sphere
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    multivariate spherical normal distribution
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    spherical finite range distribution
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