Estimating and Testing the Common Mean Direction of Several von MISES-FISHER Populations with Known Concentrations

DOI10.1080/02331889108802318zbMath0735.62018OpenAlexW2146866848MaRDI QIDQ3985823

Björn Holmquist

Publication date: 27 June 1992

Published in: Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02331889108802318

zbMATH Keywords

von Mises-Fisher distributionconditional distributiondirectional dataLangevin distributionweighted sample meancommon mean directiondifferent concentration parameterssample resultant length

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Point estimation (62F10) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15)

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