Talk:Von Mises–Fisher distribution

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Presumably it generalizes to a Mises distribution (circle) for p=3, not p=2, since circles are 2-dimensional and the von Mises-Fisher distribution is p-1 dimensional. There might be something I missed though, so I'm not going to change it without confirmation. --Smári McCarthy 13:16, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

The circle is not 2-dimensional, but 1-dimensional, as any point on the circle can be uniquely identified by a singe angle. Similarly, the sphere is 2-dimensional, as each point can be identified by a pair of polar angles. However, you do need an extra dimension to 'represent' the circle or sphere without distortions. --TomixDf Mon Aug 7 12:02:13 2006

[edit] Someone please clarify which von Mises

Was it Ludwig von Mises, the Austrian economist? The article doesn't say, nor does the article on the von Mises distribution. I was surprised recently to find out that LvM had in fact done early work on algorithmic randomness. --Trovatore (talk) 01:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

It was his brother, Richard von Mises. Tomixdf (talk) 09:04, 23 February 2008 (UTC)