Some computational aspects of the generalized von Mises distribution

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 321-331

  Gatto, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Akaike information criterion; Circular distribution; Efficient score; Entropy; Fisher information; Fourier series; Kullback Leibler information; Maximum likelihood estimator; Mixture distribution; Ratio of uniforms method

Indexed keywords

EID: 45449090416     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-008-9060-4     Document Type: Article

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