Some linear model techniques for analyzing small-circle spherical data

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 623-638

  Rivest, Louis Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conical folds; Directional data; Fisher distribution; Girdle distribution; Rotationally symmetric distribution; Spherical ellipse; Watson distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033263857     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3316117     Document Type: Article

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