A Particle Migrating Randomly on a Sphere

Journal of Theoretical Probability

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 429-443

  Brillinger, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drift; Great circle path; Likelihood ratio; Pole seeking; Skew product; Spherical Brownian motion; Stochastic differential equation; Travel time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031497409     PISSN: 08949840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022869817770     Document Type: Article

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