Timeline for Sampling a uniformly distributed point INSIDE a hypersphere?
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| Sep 1, 2018 at 1:58 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | I think $n+1$ is correct; remember that the $n+1$-hypersphere is the unit sphere of $\mathbb{R}^{n+2}$. It may not be super-obvious but I think it's a fairly straightforward calculus exercise. | |
| Sep 1, 2018 at 1:39 | vote | accept | MWB | ||
| Aug 31, 2018 at 23:25 | comment | added | MWB | @NateEldredge $n+2$ perhaps, since we want to keep $n$ numbers? It's not super-obvious that this will be uniformly distributed though. | |
| Aug 31, 2018 at 23:23 | history | edited | MWB | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 31, 2018 at 22:23 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Mark Meckes's accepted answer to that question answers this one too: take a random point on the $n+1$-dimensional hypersphere and drop two coordinates. | |
| Aug 31, 2018 at 22:06 | answer | added | Nate Eldredge | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 31, 2018 at 21:59 | history | asked | MWB | CC BY-SA 4.0 |