The Intrinsic Distribution and Selection Bias of Long-Period Cometary Orbits

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 98, Issue 463, 2003, Pages 515-521

  Jupp, Peter E ^a   Kim, Peter T ^b   Koo, Ja Yong ^c   Wiegert, Paul ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c Inha University   (South Korea)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Directed normal; Quantile quantile plot; Spherical data; Spherical uniform distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242595646     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214503000000305     Document Type: Article

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