watson

Fitting and Simulating Mixtures of Watson Distributions

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Tools for fitting and simulating mixtures of Watson distributions. The random sampling scheme of the package offers two sampling algorithms that are based of the results of Sablica, Hornik and Leydold (2022) https://research.wu.ac.at/en/publications/random-sampling-from-the-watson-distribution. What is more, the package offers a smart tool to combine these two methods, and based on the selected parameters, it approximates the relative sampling speed for both methods and picks the faster one. In addition, the package offers a fitting function for the mixtures of Watson distribution, that uses the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm. Special features are the possibility to use multiple variants of the E-step and M-step, sparse matrices for the data representation and state of the art methods for numerical evaluation of needed special functions using the results of Sablica and Hornik (2022) https://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/2022-91-334/S0025-5718-2021-03690-X/.

  • Version0.5
  • R versionunknown
  • LicenseGPL-3
  • Needs compilation?Yes
  • Last release11/19/2024

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Last 30 days

This package has been downloaded 248 times in the last 30 days. Now we're getting somewhere! Enough downloads to populate a lively group chat. The following heatmap shows the distribution of downloads per day. Yesterday, it was downloaded 3 times.

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Last 365 days

This package has been downloaded 4,361 times in the last 365 days. That's enough downloads to impress a room full of undergrads. A commendable achievement indeed. The day with the most downloads was Feb 20, 2025 with 98 downloads.

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