Geodesic normal distribution on the circle

DOI10.1007/S00184-011-0363-7zbMATH Open1410.60021arXiv1012.4361OpenAlexW2153655877MaRDI QIDQ715500FDOQ715500

Authors: Jean-François Coeurjolly, Nicolas Le Bihan 

Publication date: 29 October 2012

Published in: Metrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the study of a circular random distribution called geodesic Normal distribution recently proposed for general manifolds. This distribution, parameterized by two real numbers associated to some specific location and dispersion concepts, looks like a standard Gaussian on the real line except that the support of this variable is $[0,2pi)$ and that the Euclidean distance is replaced by the geodesic distance on the circle. Some properties are studied and comparisons with the von Mises distribution in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic means and variances are provided. Finally, the problem of estimating the parameters through the maximum likelihood method is investigated and illustrated with some simulations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.4361

Recommendations

• On a geometric approach to distributions on a circle
• Some Bayesian Inferences for Von Mises Distribution
• On geometric probability distributions on the torus with applications to molecular biology
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1375577
• A Family of Symmetric Distributions on the Circle

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihoodsimulationgeodesic distancecircular distributionintrinsic moments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Point estimation (62F10) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Asymptotic Statistics
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Intrinsic statistics on Riemannian manifolds: Basic tools for geometric measurements
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Large sample theory of intrinsic and extrinsic sample means on manifolds. I
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Riemannian center of mass and mollifier smoothing
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Large sample theory of intrinsic and extrinsic sample means on manifolds. II.
• On the consistency of procrustean mean shapes
• Locating Fréchet means with application to shape spaces
• The Karcher mean of a class of symmetric distributions on the circle

Cited In (6)

• On geometric probability distributions on the torus with applications to molecular biology
• Bayesian nonparametrics for directional statistics
• The Karcher mean of a class of symmetric distributions on the circle
• Temporal dynamics of inter-limb coordination in ice climbing revealed through change-point analysis of the geodesic mean of circular data
• Geodesic projection of the von Mises-Fisher distribution for projection pursuit of directional data
• The semi-circular normal distribution

Uses Software

• CircStats
• circular

This page was built for publication: Geodesic normal distribution on the circle

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q715500)