%0 Journal Article %1 Wood1994VonMisesSimulation %A Wood, A. T. %D 1994 %J Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation %K disco-balls spherical-distribution von-mises-fisher-distribution %N 1 %P 157--164 %T Simulation of the von Mises Fisher distribution %V 23 %X Ulrich's (1984) proposal for simulating unit vectors from the von Mises-Fisher distribution is discussed and an alternative specification of the algorithm is given. Then we describe an application to the simulation of the von Mises-Fisher matrix distribution for rotations of R3 or,equivalently, the Bingham distribution on the unit sphere in R4. The same idea also leads to a procedure for simulating the Bingham distribution on the unit sphere in Rq when q > 4. %@ 0361091940881

@article{Wood1994VonMisesSimulation, abstract = {Ulrich's (1984) proposal for simulating unit vectors from the von Mises-Fisher distribution is discussed and an alternative specification of the algorithm is given. Then we describe an application to the simulation of the von Mises-Fisher matrix distribution for rotations of R3 or,equivalently, the Bingham distribution on the unit sphere in R4. The same idea also leads to a procedure for simulating the Bingham distribution on the unit sphere in Rq when q > 4.}, added-at = {2020-12-30T23:37:21.000+0100}, author = {Wood, A. T.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2b951d4ba66fffe24920ddd74b591d890/salotz}, file = {:Users/alexrd/papers/Wood1994{\_}simulation{\_}von{\_}mises{\_}fisher.pdf:pdf}, interhash = {d3f60f1b17f40c08f43942ef36e5599c}, intrahash = {b951d4ba66fffe24920ddd74b591d890}, isbn = {0361091940881}, journal = {Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation}, keywords = {disco-balls spherical-distribution von-mises-fisher-distribution}, number = 1, pages = {157--164}, timestamp = {2020-12-30T23:37:21.000+0100}, title = {Simulation of the von Mises Fisher distribution}, volume = 23, year = 1994 }