Estimating the concentration of the Langevin distribution

DOI10.2307/3315565zbMath0702.62025OpenAlexW2011381927MaRDI QIDQ3481071

Gilles R. Ducharme, Philip Milasevic

Publication date: 1990

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3315565

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic efficiencydirectional datacontaminationstability propertiesspatial medianconcentration parameterLangevin distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) (62F35)

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High-order parameter approximation for von Mises-Fisher distributions ⋮ A counterexample on the existence of the \(L_ 1\)-median ⋮ Robust estimation of location and concentration parameters for the von Mises-Fisher distribution

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