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  <dc:title>The Scaled von Mises-Fisher Distribution</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package svmf version 1.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>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), &lt;doi:10.1080/01621459.2019.1585249&gt;.   </dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: Rfast, stats</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Michail Tsagris &lt;mtsagris@uoc.gr&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Michail Tsagris [aut, cre]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-06-18</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=svmf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.svmf</dc:identifier>
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