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November 1, 1978Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Limiting behaviour of the von Mises-Fisher distribution

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Abstract

The von Mises-Fisher density of parameter K is shown to be very similar to the spherical normal distribution of parameter υ = 1/ K as k → ∞. In fact the two densities are closer by factor of K than one might expect.

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John T. Kent (1978) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1e815460864841a668fe15 https://doi.org/10.1017/s030500410005533x

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