Möbius transformation and Cauchy parameter estimation

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 787-808

  McCullagh, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bartlett adjustment; Brownian motion; Circular Cauchy distribution; Complex parameter; Equivariance; Fractional linear transformation; Harmonic measure; Invariant measure; Invariant statistic; Likelihood ratio statistic; M bius group; Robustness; Wrapped

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030493543     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1032894465     Document Type: Article

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