Fitting mixtures of kent distributions to aid in joint set identification

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 453, 2001, Pages 56-63

  Peel, David ^a   Whiten, William J ^a   McLachlan, Geoffrey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Directional data; Expectation maximization algorithm; Kent distribution; Mixture models

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842766140     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214501750332974     Document Type: Article

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