Parameter estimation for von Mises-Fisher distributions

Computational Statistics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 145-157

  Tanabe, Akihiro ^a   Fukumizu, Kenji ^b   Oba, Shigeyuki ^a   Takenouchi, Takashi ^a   Ishii, Shin ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Concentration parameter; Maximum likelihood estimate; Modified Bessel function of the first kind; Successive substitution method; Von Mises Fisher distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247150216     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: 16139658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00180-007-0030-7     Document Type: Article

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