Some methods for generating both an NT-net and the uniform distribution on a Stiefel manifold and their applications

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-46

  Fang, Kai Tai ^a,b   Li, Run Ze ^c  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Givens transform; Householder transform; Number theoretic method; Spherical distribution; Stiefel manifold; Test of spherical symmetry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMBER THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

GIVENS TRANSFORM; HOUSEHOLDER TRANSFORM; SPHERICAL DISTRIBUTION; STIEFEL MANIFOLD;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 0031555842     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-9473(96)00057-6     Document Type: Article

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