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.