Goodness-of-fit methods for the bipolar Watson distribution defined on the hypersphere

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2006

Authors

Adelaide Figueiredo (Author) FEP; Paulo Gomes (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Statistics & Probability Letters

Vol. 76 No. 2

Pages: 142-152

ISSN: 0167-7152

Publisher: Elsevier Science

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Scientific classification

CORDIS: Technological sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-004-NPD

DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2005.07.006

Abstract (EN): The Watson distribution is frequently used for modeling axial data. In this paper, we present goodness-of-fit methods for the bipolar Watson distribution defined on the hypersphere. We analyze by simulation some questions concerning these tests: the adequacy of the asymptotic chi-square distribution used in the tests and the adequacy of using the tabulated critical values for the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic when the parameters of the bipolar Watson distribution are unknown. We illustrate these techniques with simulated data from this distribution.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 11