Random polytopes and the wet part for arbitrary probability distributions

2020 
We examine how the measure and the number of vertices of the convex hull of a random sample of $n$ points from an arbitrary probability measure in $\mathbf{R}^d$ relates to the wet part of that measure. This extends classical results for the uniform distribution from a convex set [B\'ar\'any and Larman 1988]. The lower bound of B\'ar\'any and Larman continues to hold in the general setting, but the upper bound must be relaxed by a factor of $\log n$. We show by an example that this is tight.
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