Estimating the concentration of the Langevin distribution

Gilles R. Ducharme, Philip Milasevic · Canadian Journal of Statistics · 1990

Abstract We propose an estimator of the concentration parameter of the Langevin distribution that is based on the spatial median. We derive its asymptotic distribution, compute its asymptotic efficiency, and show that it possesses some interesting stability properties under contamination.

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