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Original Articles

Bayes estimation of a langevin mean direction

KanikaDepartment of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
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Somesh KumarDepartment of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, IndiaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 2769-2783 | Received 31 Oct 2014, Accepted 09 Jun 2015, Published online: 18 Dec 2016

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