A family of symmetric distributions on the circle

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 100, Issue 472, 2005, Pages 1422-1428

  Jones, M C ^a   Pewsey, Arthur ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Associated Legendre function; Cardioid distribution; Circular uniform distribution; Distributions on the sphere; Von Mises distribution; Wrapped Cauchy distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144468260     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214505000000286     Document Type: Article

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