Computing the normalization factor in bingham distributions

DOI10.1080/00949658908811176zbMath0718.62037OpenAlexW2031590786MaRDI QIDQ5750111

Richard A. Strelitz

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00949658908811176

zbMATH Keywords

confluent hypergeometric functionBingham distributionC program

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical solutions to stochastic differential and integral equations (65C30) Confluent hypergeometric functions, Whittaker functions, ({}_1F_1) (33C15) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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