svmf: The Scaled von Mises-Fisher Distribution

Functions to perform maximum likelihood estimation of and random value simulation from the scaled von Mises-Fisher distribution. The distribution is elliptical symmetric and can be applied to spherical and hyper-spherical data. The reference paper is Scealy J.L. and Wood A.T.A. (2019), <doi:10.1080/01621459.2019.1585249>.

Version:	1.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.0)
Imports:	Rfast, stats
Published:	2026-06-18
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.svmf (may not be active yet)
Author:	Michail Tsagris [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Michail Tsagris <mtsagris at uoc.gr>
License:	GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
NeedsCompilation:	no
CRAN checks:	svmf results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

svmf.html , svmf.pdf

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Package source:	svmf_1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: svmf_1.0.zip, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): svmf_1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): svmf_1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): svmf_1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): svmf_1.0.tgz

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