| Article ID: | iaor1994366 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 44 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 513 |
| End Page Number: | 519 |
| Publication Date: | May 1993 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Soumis F., Laporle G., Gaboune B. |
| Keywords: | metrics |
In this paper, the expected distance between two uniformly distributed random points in a rectangle or in a rectangular parallelepiped is computed under three different metrics: the Manhattan metric, the Euclidean metric, and the Chebychev metric.