On maximum likelihood estimation of the concentration parameter of von Mises-Fisher distributions

DOI10.1007/s00180-013-0471-0zbMath1306.65071OpenAlexW2109448168WikidataQ42109244 ScholiaQ42109244MaRDI QIDQ2259764

Kurt Hornik, Bettina Grün

Publication date: 5 March 2015

Published in: Computational Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-013-0471-0

zbMATH Keywords

von Mises-Fisher distributionmaximum likelihoodnumerical approximationmodified Bessel function ratio

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Point estimation (62F10) Bessel and Airy functions, cylinder functions, ({}_0F_1) (33C10)

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• R

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