Multimodal Distributions for Circular Axial Data
By: Fernández-Durán , J. J. , Gregorio-Domínguez and more
Potential Business Impact:
Helps scientists understand animal and rock directions.
The family of circular distributions based on non-negative trigonometric sums (NNTS), developed by Fern\'andez-Dur\'an (2004), is highly flexible for modeling datasets exhibiting multimodality and/or skewness. In this article, we extend the NNTS family to axial data by identifying conditions under which the original NNTS family is suitable for modeling undirected vectors. Since the estimation is performed using maximum likelihood, likelihood ratio tests are developed for characteristics of the density function such as uniformity and symmetry. The proposed methodology is applied to real datasets involving orientations of rocks, animals, and plants.
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