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An Introduction to Circular Statistics and its Application to Sound Localization Experiments

Authors: Cabot, Richard C.

AES Convention 58 · Paper 1292 · November 1977

Abstract

The problems inherent in handling circular variables, and the statistical analyses required, are discussed. Measures of mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis are presented and compared to the linear case. Significance tests for several statistical measures are described. A previously unavailable measure of correlation between circular variables and several routines for many of correlation measures are presented. The use of computer routines for many of these calculations is detailed and references to several programs are given.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 58
AES Convention
58
Paper number
1292
Publication date
November 6, 1977
Affiliation
Acoustics Research Laboratory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper