Define
where
is an
orthogonal matrix, and
denotes the application of the transformation
to each of the points used in the original symmetric sum
.
All rule points for
are on the
sphere surface and are linear transformations
of the original points, so
also has polynomial degree
. Denote the average of
random copies of
by
If random orthogonal matrices
are generated with Haar distribution from
the set of all matrices in the orthogonal group
(see Stewart [6], 1980),
then the ``stochastic'' rule
is an unbiased
degree
estimate for
. A robust unbiased degree
error
estimate
is provided by the Monte Carlo standard error
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