Statistical Analysis of Circular Data

• Preface; 1. The purpose of the book; 2. Survey of contents; 3. How to use the book; 4. Notation, terminology and conventions; 5. Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: Part II. Descriptive Methods: 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Data display; 2.3. Simple summary quantities; 2.4. Modifications for axial data; Part III. Models: 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Notation; trigonometric moments; 3.3. Probability distributions on the circle; Part IV. Analysis of a Single Sample of Data: 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Exploratory analysis; 4.3. Testing a sample of unit vectors for uniformity; 4.4. Nonparametric methods for unimodal data; 4.5. Statistical analysis of a random sample of unit vectors from a von Mises distribution; 4.6. Statistical analysis of a random sample of unit vectors from a multimodal distribution; 4.7. Other topics; Part V. Analysis of Two or More Samples, and of Other Experimental Layouts: 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Exploratory analysis; 5.3. Nonparametric methods for analysing two or more samples of unimodal data; 5.4. Analysis of two or more samples from von Mises distributions; 5.5. Analysis of data from more complicated experimental designs; Part VI. Correlation and Regression: 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Linear-circular association and circular-linear association; 6.3. Circular-circular association; 6.4. Regression models for a circular response variable; Part VII. Analysis of Data with Temporal or Spatial Structure: 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. Analysis of temporal data; 7.3. Spatial analysis; Part VIII. Some Modern Statistical Techniques for Testing and Estimation: 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. Bootstrap methods for confidence intervals and hypothesis tests: general description; 8.3. Bootstrap methods for circular data: confidence regions for the mean direction; 8.4. Bootstrap methods for circular data: hypothesis tests for mean directions; 8.5. Randomisation, or permutation, tests; Appendix A. Tables; Appendix B. Data sets; References; Index.

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