Watson, Geoffrey S. Statistics on spheres. (English) Zbl 0646.62045 The University of Arkansas Lecture Notes in the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 6. A Wiley-Interscience Publication. New York etc.: John Wiley & Sons. X, 238 p. (1983). Contents: Ch. 1. Introduction; Ch. 2. The uniform distributionon \(\Omega_ q\); Ch. 3. Classes of distributions on \(\Omega_ q\); Ch. 4. Statistical methods based on the center of mass of the sample; Ch. 5. Statistical methods based on the moment of inertia of the sample. Appendices: A. Normalization constants; B. Asymptotic spectral analysis of cross-product matrices; C. Series expansion for the angular Gaussian distribution. Cited in 9 ReviewsCited in 129 Documents MSC: 62H10 Multivariate distribution of statistics 62-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics 62E20 Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics 62H05 Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas Keywords:directional data; exponential families; diffusion models; rotational symmetry; partially specified models; von Mises-Fisher distribution; Langevin distribution; Scheidegger-Watson distribution; uniform distribution; center of mass; moment of inertia PDFBibTeX XML