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New Bivariate Wrapped Distributions

S. Nadarajah1 and Y. Zhang1
  • 1 University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Abstract

There are not many models for bivariate directional data. Here, we introduce more than ten new bivariate wrapped distributions. For each distribution, expressions are given for the means, covariances and five correlation coefficients.

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics
Volume 12 No. 4, 2016, 206-212

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jmssp.2016.206.212

Submitted On: 12 June 2016 Published On: 24 November 2016

How to Cite: Nadarajah, S. & Zhang, Y. (2016). New Bivariate Wrapped Distributions. Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, 12(4), 206-212. https://doi.org/10.3844/jmssp.2016.206.212

Open AccessCopyright: © 2016 S. Nadarajah and Y. Zhang. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Keywords

  • Characteristic Function
  • Correlation Coefficients
  • Directional Data