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A Bimodal Distribution on the Sphere
Author(s) -
Wood Andrew
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2347074
Subject(s) - distribution (mathematics) , mathematics , statistics , mathematical analysis
S ummary A distribution is proposed as a model for spherical data concentrated about two directions in roughly equal proportions. This distribution, which has convenient computational properties, includes the Fisher distribution as a special case (that in which the modal directions coincide).