A short note on parameter approximation for von Mises-Fisher distributions: And a fast implementation of I s(x)

Computational Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 177-190

  Sra, Suvrit ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bessel ratio; Maximum likelihood; Modified Bessel function; Numerical approximation; von Mises Fisher distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856012299     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: 16139658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00180-011-0232-x     Document Type: Article

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