Modified Kent's statistics for testing goodness of fit for the Fisher distribution in small concentrated samples
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Modified Kent's statistics for testing goodness of fit for the Fisher distribution in small concentrated samples
zbMATH Open document ID: 0593.62054
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(86)90028-3
author: Louis-Paul Rivest
published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters
publication date: 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62H15
zbMATH DE Number: 3954074
zbMATH Keywords: goodness of fit
zbMATH Keywords: small concentrated samples
zbMATH Keywords: directional data
zbMATH Keywords: principal components
zbMATH Keywords: von Mises-Fisher distribution
zbMATH Keywords: Kent's statistic
zbMATH Keywords: Fisher distribution
zbMATH Keywords: concentration parameter
zbMATH Keywords: limiting null distribution
zbMATH Keywords: eigenvalues
zbMATH Keywords: sample cross product matrix
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0167-7152(86)90028-3
OpenAlex ID: W2018604041
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