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minimun covering ellipses

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pierre Duchesne)
Fri Feb 17 00:57:44 1995

From: duchesne@STAT.UMontreal.CA (Pierre Duchesne)
To: s-news@utstat.toronto.edu
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 00:43:15 -0500 (EST)

Hello,

Suppose i want to find the ellipse of smallest area covering a given plane
point set.  Does anyone know a good algorithm for such problem?  Is
there a source code somewhere  (in S or in Fortran) ?  

Thanks

Pierre Duchesne
duchesne@nord.stat.umontreal.ca


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