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WORKSHOP ON DIRECTIONAL STATISTICS
 
DATE: October 5, 2006
VENUE: The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Auditorium
 
09:55-10:00
 
Welcome, Kunio Shimizu, Keio University
10:00-10:45
 
The Development of Bivariate Models for Circular Data and Tests of Independence
Richard A. Johnson, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.
 
10:45-11:30
 
A Bivariate Generalized von Mises Distribution with Applications to Circular Genomes
Grace S. Shieh, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
 
11:30-12:00
 
Empirical Bayes Estimation in the Von Mises Distribution
Ye Xiong, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies and Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd.
 
- lunch -    
14:00-14:45
 
Unified Approaches to Testing Symmetry and Independence in Possibly Asymmetric Distributions for Directional Data
Ashis SenGupta, Applied Statistics Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
 
14:45-15:15
 
Parameter Estimation for the Langevin Distribution
Yoko Watamori, Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University
 
- break -  
15:40-16:00
How to Apply Directional Transformation to Graphical Representation Methods
Yasumasa Baba, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
 
16:00-16:20
A Bivariate Circular Distribution with Uniform Marginals
Shogo Kato, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University
 
16:20-16:40
Generation of t-Distributions on Spheres by Stereographic Projection
Toshihiro Abe, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University
 
16:40-17:00
Generalized Laplace Distribution by Conditioning Scale Mixture of Normal on a Unit Sphere
Hai-Yen Siew, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
 
 
 
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