A New Family of Circular Models: The Wrapped Laplace Distributions
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sity of Nevada, Reno Abstract: We introduce a new class of asymmetric circular distributions, obtained by wrapping skewed Laplace distributions on the real line, around a circle. We obtain explicit forms for the densities and distribution functions for this family, as well as their trigonometric moments and related parameters. We derive basic properties of these laws and illustrate their modeling potential using a classical data set on orientation of ants.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003