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 ...

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) ...