An Alternative Estimate of Preferred Direction for Circular Data
Circular or Angular data occur in many fields of applied statistics. A common problem of interest in circular data is estimating a preferred direction and its corresponding distribution. This problem is complicated by the so-called wrap-around effect, which exists because there is no minimum or maxi...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28401 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07262002-104720/ |