The mean resultant length of the spherically projected normal distribution

Brett Presnell and Pavlina Rumcheva

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2008, vol. 78, issue 5, 557-563

Abstract: We derive a closed-form expression for the mean resultant length of the d-dimensional projected normal distribution and provide graphical comparisons of the projected normal and Fisher-von Mises distributions in three and four dimensions.

Keywords: Directional; data; Spherical; data; Circular; data; Angular; normal; Offset; normal; Displaced; normal; von; Mises; distribution; Fisher; distribution; Regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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