Directional mixture models and optimal estimation of the mixing density

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 383-398

  Kim, Peter T ^a   Koo, Ja Yong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b Hallym University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Addition formula; Fano's lemma; Gaussian distribution; Laplace distribution; Smoothness conditions; Spherical harmonics; Von mises fisher distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034343794     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315986     Document Type: Article

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