Density estimation for protein conformation angles using a bivariate von mises distribution and bayesian nonparametrics

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 486, 2009, Pages 586-596

  Lennox, Kristin P ^a   Dahl, David B ^a   Vannucci, Marina ^b   Tsai, Jerry W ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Angular data; Density estimation; Dirichlet process mixture model; Torsion angles; von Mises distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 66549122415     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.0024     Document Type: Article

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