A correlation coefficient for circular data

1983/01/01 by N. I. FISHER, N. I. Fisher, A. J. LEE +1 · 16 citations
Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · Computer Science · #Soil Geostatistics and Mapping #Scientific Research and Discoveries #Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models

paper · doi:10.1093/biomet/70.2.327

Abstract

SUMMARY A coefficient to measure association between angular variables is discussed, its asymptotic distribution found, and its properties developed. Comparisons with other statistics in current use are made, and some examples given.

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