The generalized symmetric Laplace distribution on the sphere

Statistical Methodology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 487-501

  Siew, Hai Yen ^a   Shimizu, Kunio ^b  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardioid distribution; Directional statistics; E M algorithm; Normal mixture; Von Mises Fisher distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049107355     PISSN: 15723127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stamet.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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