On the power of axial tests of uniformity on spheres

DOI10.1214/20-EJS1716zbMath1442.62113arXiv1910.09391OpenAlexW3025394729MaRDI QIDQ2188471

Davy Paindaveine, Christine Cutting, Thomas Verdebout

Publication date: 11 June 2020

Published in: Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09391

zbMATH Keywords

rotational symmetrylocal asymptotic normalitycontiguitydirectional statisticstests of uniformityaxial data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Directional data; spatial statistics (62H11) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Statistics on manifolds (62R30) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17) Asymptotic properties of parametric tests (62F05)

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Uses Software

• rotasym

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