The wrapped stable family of distributions as a flexible model for circular data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1516-1523

  Pewsey, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antimodal mass; Asymmetry; Finite mixture modeling; Peakedness; Wrapped L vy distribution; Wrapped skew Cauchy distribution

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION;

ANTIMODAL MASS; FINITE MIXTURE MODELING; PEAKEDNESS; WRAPPED LÉVY DISTRIBUTION; WRAPPED SKEW-CAUCHY DISTRIBUTION;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 35548990141     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.04.017     Document Type: Article

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