Approximating the matrix Fisher and Bingham distributions: Applications to spherical regression and procrustes analysis

Christopher Bingham, Ted Chang and Donald Richards

Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 1992, vol. 41, issue 2, 314-337

Abstract: We obtain approximations to the distribution of the exponent in the matrix Fisher distributions on SO(p) and on O(p) whose density with respect to Haar measure is proportional to exp(Tr GX0tX). Similar approximations are found for the distribution of the exponent in the Bingham distribution, with density proportional to exp(xtGx), on the unit sphere Sp-1 in Euclidean p-dimensional space. The matrix Fisher distribution arises as the exact conditional distribution of the maximum likelihood estmate of the unknown orthogonal matrix in the spherical regression model on Sp-1 with Fisher distributed errors. It also arises as the exact conditional distribution of the maximum likelihood estimate of the unknown orthogonal matrix in a model of Procrustes analysis in which location and orientation, but not scale, changes are allowed. These methods allow determination of a confidence region for the unknown rotation for moderate sample sizes with moderate error concentrations when the error concentration parameter is known.

Keywords: Bingham; distribution; matrix; Fisher; distribution; spherical; regression; where's; the; beef; estimated; rotations; procrustes; analysis; asymptotic; expansions; tectonic; plate; reconstructions; beef; carcasses; zonal; polynomials; hypergeometric; functions; of; matrix; argument (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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