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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.06091.4
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-8390
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2006/839/
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Blunck, Henrik ; Vahrenhold, Jan

In-Place Randomized Slope-Selection

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Abstract

Slope selection is a well-known algorithmic tool used in the context of computing robust
estimators for fitting a line to a collection $mathcal{P}$ of $n$ points in the plane. We
demonstrate that it is possible to perform slope selection in expected $mathcal{O}(n log n)$
time using only constant extra space in addition to the space needed for representing the input.
Our solution is based upon a space-efficient variant of Matouv{s}ek's randomized interpolation
search, and we believe that the techniques developed in this paper will prove helpful in the
design of space-efficient randomized algorithms using samples. To underline this, we also sketch
how to compute the repeated median line estimator in an in-place setting.


BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{blunck_et_al:DagSemProc.06091.4,
  author =	{Blunck, Henrik and Vahrenhold, Jan},
  title =	{{In-Place Randomized Slope-Selection}},
  booktitle =	{Data Structures},
  pages =	{1--4},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2006},
  volume =	{6091},
  editor =	{Lars Arge and Robert Sedgewick and Dorothea Wagner},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2006/839},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-8390},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.06091.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: In-Place Algorithms, Slope Selection}
}

Keywords: In-Place Algorithms, Slope Selection
Collection: 06091 - Data Structures
Issue Date: 2006
Date of publication: 30.11.2006


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