Fitting Kent models to compositional data with small concentration

DOI10.1007/S11222-012-9361-5zbMath1325.62049OpenAlexW2072954071MaRDI QIDQ892460

J. L. Scealy, A. H. Welsh

Publication date: 19 November 2015

Published in: Statistics and Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-012-9361-5

zbMATH Keywords

saddlepoint approximationEM algorithmmaximum likelihood estimationdirectional datafoldingcompositional dataKent distributionsquare root transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Taxonomy, cladistics, statistics in mathematical biology (92B10)

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