Asymptotic behavior of sample mean direction for spheres

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 141-152

  Hendriks, Harrie ^a   Landsman, Zinoviy ^b   Ruymgaart, Frits ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen ^*

Author keywords

Asymptotic behavior; Mean direction; Mean location; Sample; Sample mean location; Sphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030295988     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1996.0057     Document Type: Article

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