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Geometry of circular vectors and pattern recognition of shape of a boundary

C R Rao1

  • 1Statistics Department, 326 Joab Thomas Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. crr1@psu.edu

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|October 28, 1998
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