Inverse Batschelet Distributions for Circular Data

Biometrics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 183-193

  Jones, M C ^a   Pewsey, Arthur ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Circular statistics; Flat topped; Parameter orthogonality; Skew distributions; Transformation of scale; Unimodality; Von Mises distribution

Indexed keywords

HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS;

CIRCULAR STATISTICS; FLAT-TOPPED; ORTHOGONALITY; PARAMETER ORTHOGONALITY; SKEW DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFORMATION OF SCALE; UNIMODAL; UNIMODALITY; VON MISES; VON MISES DISTRIBUTION;

METADATA;

BIOMETRY; DATA SET; FLY; INFANT MORTALITY; LARVA; LOCOMOTION; SKEWNESS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84858861706     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01651.x     Document Type: Article

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