Asymptotic behavior of sample mean location for manifolds

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 169-178

  Hendriks, Harrie ^a   Landsman, Zinoviy ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Asymptotic behavior; Chi squared distribution; Cut locus; Degenerate normal distribution; Mean location; Sample mean location; Submanifolds; Weingarten mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030080006     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(95)00007-0     Document Type: Article

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