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Multimodal regression estimation methods are introduced for regression models involving circular response and/or covariate. The regression estimators are based on the maximization of the conditional densities of the response variable over…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-10 María Alonso-Pena , Rosa M. Crujeiras

The technique of wrapping of a univariate probability distribution is very effective in getting a circular form of the underlying density. In this article, we introduce the circular (wrapped) version of xgamma distribution and study its…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-03-04 Hazem Al-Mofleh , Subhradev Sen

Directional data consists of unit vectors in q-dimensions that can be described in polar or Cartesian coordinates. Axial data can be viewed as a pair of directions pointed in opposite directions or as a projection matrix of rank 1.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-22 Rudolf Beran

Nonparametric tests for equality of multivariate distributions are frequently desired in research. It is commonly required that test-procedures based on relatively small samples of vectors accurately control the corresponding Type I Error…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-14 Ablert Vexler , Gregory Gurevich , Li Zou

The regular variation model for multivariate extremes decomposes the joint distribution of the extremes in polar coordinates in terms of the angles and the norm of the random vector as the product of two independent densities: the angular…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-08 Fernández-Durán , J. J. , Gregorio-Domínguez , M. M

Circular data are data measured in angles and occur in a variety of scientific disciplines. Bayesian methods promise to allow for flexible analysis of circular data. Three existing MCMC methods (Gibbs, Metropolis-Hastings, and Rejection)…

Computation · Statistics 2015-05-12 Kees Tim Mulder , Irene Klugkist

We propose new small-sphere distributional families for modeling multivariate directional data on $(\mathbb{S}^{p-1})^K$ for $p \ge 3$ and $K \ge 1$. In a special case of univariate directions in $\Re^3$, the new densities model random…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-29 Byungwon Kim , Stephan Huckemann , Jörn Schulz , Sungkyu Jung

The Box-Cox symmetric distributions constitute a broad class of probability models for positive continuous data, offering flexibility in modeling skewness and tail behavior. Their parameterization allows a straightforward quantile-based…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-16 Rodrigo M. R. de Medeiros , Francisco F. Queiroz

Skewness is a common occurrence in statistical applications. In recent years, various distribution families have been proposed to model skewed data by introducing unequal scales based on the median or mode. However, we argue that the point…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-10 Yiyuan She , Xiaoqiang Wu , Lizhu Tao , Debajyoti Sinha

Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance on many generative tasks. Despite recent success, most diffusion models are restricted in that they only allow linear transformation of the data distribution. In contrast, broader family of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Grigory Bartosh , Dmitry Vetrov , Christian A. Naesseth

In this article, a generalized inverse xgamma distribution (GIXGD) has been introduced as the generalized version of the inverse xgamma distribution. The proposed model exhibits the pattern of non-monotone hazard rate and belongs to family…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-13 Harsh Tripathi , Abhimanyu Singh Yadav , Mahendra Saha , Sumit Kumar

A novel approach to adding two additional parameters to a family of distributions for better adaptability has been put forth. This approach yields a versatile class of distributions supported on the positive real line. We proceed to analyze…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-19 Subhankar Dutta , Roberto Vila , Terezinha K. A. Ribeiro

Flexible distributions for modelling angular data have received considerable attention in recent years, with ongoing work extending existing circular models to provide greater flexibility in capturing diverse angular behaviours. In this…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-18 Johan Ferreira , Delene van Wyk-de Ridder , Janet van Niekerk

In the present paper new light is shed on the non-central extensions of the Dirichlet distribution. Due to several probabilistic and inferential properties and to the easiness of parameter interpretation, the Dirichlet distribution proves…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Carlo Orsi

Directional data require specialized probability models because of the non-Euclidean and periodic nature of their domain. When a directional variable is observed jointly with linear variables, modeling their dependence adds an additional…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-22 Tong Zou , Hal S. Stern

One way of defining probability distributions for circular variables (directions in two dimensions) is to radially project probability distributions, originally defined on $\mathbb{R}^2$, to the unit circle. Projected distributions have…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-06 Luis Nieto-Barajas , Gabriel Nuñez-Antonio

Thanks to its favorable properties, the multivariate normal distribution is still largely employed for modeling phenomena in various scientific fields. However, when the number of components $p$ is of the same asymptotic order as the sample…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Caizhu Huang , Claudia Di Caterina , Nicola Sartori

The nonparametric formulation of density-based clustering, known as modal clustering, draws a correspondence between groups and the attraction domains of the modes of the density function underlying the data. Its probabilistic foundation…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-27 Federico Ferraccioli , Giovanna Menardi

Non-Gaussian mixture models are gaining increasing attention for mixture model-based clustering particularly when dealing with data that exhibit features such as skewness and heavy tails. Here, such a mixture distribution is presented,…

Computation · Statistics 2020-05-07 Yuan Fang , Dimitris Karlis , Sanjeena Subedi

In this paper, a new mixture family of multivariate normal distributions, formed by mixing multivariate normal distribution and skewed distribution, is constructed. Some properties of this family, such as characteristic function, moment…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-24 Me'raj Abdi , Mohsen Madadi , N. Balakrishnan , Ahad Jamalizadeh