Robust estimation of the concentration parameter of the von Mises-Fisher distribution

DOI10.1214/aos/1176348663zbMath0746.62033OpenAlexW2091467340MaRDI QIDQ1193358

Daijin Ko

Publication date: 27 September 1992

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176348663

zbMATH Keywords

von Mises-Fisher distributionasymptotic efficiencyunit spheredirectional dataconcentration parameterrobust estimatesstandardized bias robustnessSB robustness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Point estimation (62F10) Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) (62F35)

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