An entropy-based test for goodness of fit of the von mises distribution

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 319-332

  Lund, Ulric ^a   Jammalamadaka, S Rao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Circular statistics; Entropy; Goodness of fit; Von Mises

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034349505     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650008812048     Document Type: Article

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