Some estimation theory on the sphere

zbMath0609.62077MaRDI QIDQ1086943

Geoffrey S. Watson

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

von Mises-Fisher distributioninfluence functionspherical dataloss functionsuniform priorsBingham distributionLangevin distributionBayesian estimatorsPitman estimatorsinfinitesimal robustness characteristicsScheiddegger-Watson distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12)

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