The Langevin distribution on high dimensional spheres
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Applied Statistics
- Vol. 15 (2), 123-130
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02664768800000019
Abstract
The Langevin (or von-Mises) distribution L(μ,k,q) of a unit vector in Rq has been well studied for the cases of large samples (n? 8) and high concentrations (K? 8). Here we study it as q? 8. Interesting results are only obtained when we use L(μ,q½,q).Keywords
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