Testing homogeneity in a mixture of von Mises distributions with a structural parameter

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 129-142

  Chen, Jiahua ^a   Li, Pengfei ^b   Fu, Yuejiao ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Circular data; Directional data; Mixture of von Mises distributions; Modified likelihood; Penalty.

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649099754     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.5550360112     Document Type: Article

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