Skew-symmetric circular distributions and their structural properties

Mojtaba Hatami () and Mohammad Hossein Alamatsaz ()
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Mojtaba Hatami: University of Isfahan
Mohammad Hossein Alamatsaz: University of Isfahan

Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2019, vol. 50, issue 4, 953-969

Abstract: Abstract A general method of constructing a circular model is to apply transformation to its argument. In this paper, we propose a new transformation in order to construct a large class of new skew-symmetric circular models. We consider a symmetric unimodal distribution as our base model and provide general results for the modality, skewness and shape properties of the resulting circular distributions. The new class enfolds two well-known and common classes of unimodal symmetric and asymmetric circular distributions. The skewness parameter in the new class greatly improves the flexibility of our model to cover symmetric, asymmetric, unimodal and multimodal data. Further, we consider Wrapped Cauchy distribution as a special case for our base distribution and introduce the Skew-Symmetric Wrapped Cauchy (SSWC) distribution, discuss its sub-models and estimate its parameters by the maximum likelihood method. Finally, an application of SSWC distribution and its inferential methods are illustrated using two real data examples.

Keywords: Circular statistics; argument transformation; unimodality; peakedness; skewness; wrapped Cauchy distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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