Statistical Science, Vol. 8, No. 1, Report from the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Research Council on Probability and Algorithms (Feb., 1993), pp. 48-56 (9 pages) ...

For the Euclidean single facility location problem, E. Weiszfeld proposed a simple closed-form iterative algorithm in 1937. Later, numerous authors proved that it is a convergent descent algorithm. In ...