Symmetric circular models through duplication and cosine perturbation

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3271-3282

  Abe, Toshihiro ^a   Pewsey, Arthur ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Animal orientation; Antipodal symmetry; Bipolar; Generalised von Mises; Perturbation; von Mises mixture

Indexed keywords

ANTIPODAL SYMMETRY; BIPOLAR; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; INFERENTIAL METHODS; LIKELIHOOD-RATIO TEST; ORIENTATION DATA; PERTURBATION; SUBMODELS; UNIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; VON MISES;

ANIMALS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 79961170322     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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