Re: [R] Bounding ellipse for any set of points

2011-07-20 Thread Andy Lyons
1 17:23:00 -0700 From: Andy Lyons To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Bounding ellipse for any set of points Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20110324051124.117a0...@calmail.berkeley.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" After a lot of effort I developed the followi

[R] Bounding ellipse for any set of points

2011-03-25 Thread Andy Lyons
After a lot of effort I developed the following function to compute the bounding ellipse (also known a as minimum volume enclosing ellipsoid) for any set of points. This script is limited to two dimensions, but I believe with minor modification the algorithm should work for 3 or more d