A new statistical model for random unit vectors

DOI10.1016/j.jmva.2008.03.004zbMath1151.62047MaRDI QIDQ958907

Karim Oualkacha, Louis-Paul Rivest

Publication date: 10 December 2008

Published in: Journal of Multivariate Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/8517/1/Oualkacha-2009a-preprint.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

rotation; multivariate statistics; spherical symmetry; directional data; quaternion; axial distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62H11: Directional data; spatial statistics

62F12: Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators

62H12: Estimation in multivariate analysis

62E20: Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics

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One-sample Bayes inference for symmetric distributions of 3-D rotations, A permutation test for comparing rotational symmetry in three-dimensional rotation data sets, Recent advances in directional statistics

Uses Software

• CircStats
• circular

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