Modified Kent's statistics for testing goodness of fit for the Fisher distribution in small concentrated samples

DOI10.1016/0167-7152(86)90028-3MaRDI QIDQ1076459zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Louis-Paul Rivest

Publication date 1986

Published in Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-7152(86)90028-3

zbMATH Keywords

concentration parameterdirectional dataeigenvaluesFisher distributiongoodness of fitKent's statisticlimiting null distributionprincipal componentssample cross product matrixsmall concentrated samplesvon Mises-Fisher distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15)

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