On a Mixture Model for Directional Data on the Sphere

DOI10.1111/sjos.12169zbMath1364.62123MaRDI QIDQ2791833

Na Zhang, Claudia Redenbach, Jürgen Franke

Publication date: 16 March 2016

Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/sjos.12169

zbMATH Keywords

parameter estimation; EM algorithm; maximum likelihood; angular central Gaussian distribution; direction distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62H11: Directional data; spatial statistics

62F12: Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators

62H30: Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects)

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Clustering directional data through depth functions, Dimension‐independent Markov chain Monte Carlo on the sphere, Estimating a mixing distribution on the sphere using predictive recursion, Detecting anomalies in fibre systems using 3-dimensional image data, Recent advances in directional statistics

Uses Software

• MAVI

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