A family of toroidal diffusions with exact likelihood inference
可进行精确似然推断的一族环面扩散过程
Abstract We provide a class of diffusion processes for continuous time-varying multivariate angular data with explicit transition probability densities, enabling exact likelihood inference. The presented diffusions are time reversible and can be constructed for any prespecified stationary distribution on the torus, including highly multimodal mixtures. We give results on asymptotic likelihood theory, allowing one-sample inference and tests of linear hypotheses for $ k $ group…