• The Multivariate Normal Inverse Gaussian distribution: EM-estimation and analysis of synthetic aperture sonar data 

      Øigård, Tor Arne; Hanssen, Alfred; Hansen, Roy Edgar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2004-09)
      The heavy-tailed Multivariate Normal Inverse Gaussian (MNIG) distribution is a recent variance-mean mixture of a multivariate Gaussian with a univariate inverse Gaussian distribution. Due to the complexity of the likelihood function, parameter estimation by direct maximization is exceedingly difficult. To overcome this problem, we propose a fast and accurate multivariate ExpectationMaximization (EM) ...