The BIAS of the maximum likelihood estimators of the von mises-fisher concentration parameters
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
- Vol. 10 (5) , 493-502
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918108812225
Abstract
It is shown that the bias of the maximum likelihood estimators of the concentration parameters of the von Mises and Fisher distributions is considerable. New estimators which are either nearly unbiased or nearly median unbiased are proposed.Keywords
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