A plug-in rule for bandwidth selection in circular density estimation

2012/02/27 by M. Oliveira, M. Rosário Oliveira, R. M. Crujeiras +6
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Mathematics · #62G07 #Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock #Methodology (stat.ME) #msc:62G07 #stat.ME

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1202.6076

15 pages, 3 figures

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Abstract

A new plug-in rule procedure for bandwidth selection in kernel circular density estimation is introduced. The performance of this proposal is checked throughout a simulation study considering a variety of circular distributions exhibiting multimodality, peakedness and/or skewness. The plug-in rule behaviour is also compared with other existing bandwidth selectors. The method is illustrated with two classical datasets of cross-beds layers and animal orientation.

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