M-estimation for location and regression parameters in group models: A case study using Stiefel manifolds

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 784-814

  Chang, Ted ^a   Rivest, Louis Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Directional statistics; Equivariance; Group models; Orientations; Rigid body motion; Rotations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035539857     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1009210690     Document Type: Article

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