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Area of Science:

  • Statistics
  • Circular Data Analysis
  • Probability Distributions

Background:

  • Circular distributions are essential for analyzing directional data.
  • Existing distributions have limitations in capturing diverse skewness and peakedness.
  • Batschelet's transformations offer a foundation for developing new circular models.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop novel four-parameter families of unimodal circular distributions.
  • To achieve the widest available ranges of skewness and peakedness in circular distributions.
  • To explore the theoretical properties and practical applications of these new distributions.

Main Methods:

  • Employing nontrivial extensions and inverses of Batschelet-type transformations.
  • Developing four-parameter families of distributions on the circle.
  • Investigating likelihood inference and parameter orthogonality.
  • Applying profile likelihoods for practical analysis.

Main Results:

  • Introduced unimodal circular distributions with extensive skewness and peakedness ranges.
  • Demonstrated advantages of inverse transformations over direct Batschelet transformations.
  • Established orthogonality between parameter pairs (location, skewness) and (concentration, peakedness).
  • Showcased approximate orthogonality of the location parameter.

Conclusions:

  • The new distributions offer significant flexibility for modeling circular data.
  • The proposed transformations provide theoretical and practical benefits for circular statistics.
  • Applications in Drosophila locomotion and sudden infant death syndrome data analysis are demonstrated.