On conjugate families and Jeffreys priors for von Mises–Fisher distributions
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0378-3758
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2012.11.003