Principal Curves
doi:10.1080/01621459.1989.10478797
JASA 84(406):502-516. Introduced self-consistent curves; Tarpey-Flury 1996 explicitly credits this source for the self-consistency terminology before generalizing it to random vectors, principal points, and other summaries.
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