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Antipodally symmetric probability distribution on the n-sphere
In
statistics, the Bingham distribution, named after
Christopher Bingham, is an
antipodally symmetric
probability distribution on the
n-sphere.
[1] It is a generalization of the Watson distribution and a special case of the
Kent and Fisher–Bingham distributions.
The Bingham distribution is widely used in
paleomagnetic data analysis,
[2] and has been used in the field of
computer vision.
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Its
probability density function is given by
which may also be written
where x is an axis (i.e., a unit vector), M is an
orthogonal orientation matrix, Z is a diagonal concentration matrix, and
is a confluent
hypergeometric function of matrix argument. The matrices M and Z are the result of
diagonalizing the
positive-definite covariance matrix of the
Gaussian distribution that underlies the Bingham distribution.
See also
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