Publications


Refereed articles:

  1. Koike, T., Kato, S. and Yoshiba, T. Measuring and testing tail equivalence. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, to appear.
  2. Tsagris, M., Papastamoulis, P. and Kato, S. (2025). Directional data analysis: spherical Cauchy or Poisson kernel-based distribution? Statistics and Computing, 35, 51.
  3. Nagasaki, K., Kato, S., Nakanishi, W. and Jones, M.C. (2025). Traffic count data analysis using mixtures of Kato-Jones distributions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), ), 74, 352-372.
  4. Koike, T., Kato, S. and Hofert, M. (2023). Measuring non-exchangeable tail dependence using tail copulas. ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA, 75, 466-487.
  5. Kato, S. (2023). Probability distributions in statistics of directional data (in Japanese). Sugaku Expositions, 75, 246-270.
  6. Yoshiba, T., Koike, T., Kato, S. (2023). On a measure of tail asymmetry for the bivariate skew-normal copula. Symmetry, 15, 1410.
  7. Kato, S., Pewsey, A. and Jones, M.C. (2022). Tractable circula densities from Fourier series. TEST, 31, 595-618. [Data & R code]
  8. Kato, S., Yoshiba, T. and Eguchi, S. (2022). Copula-based measures of asymmetry between the lower and upper tail probabilities. Statistical Papers, 63, 1907-1929.
  9. Noma, H., Nagashima, K., Kato, S., Teramukai, S. and Furukawa, T.A. (2022). Meta-analysis using flexible random-effects distribution models. Journal of Epidemiology, 32, 441-448.
  10. Kato, S. and McCullagh, P. (2020). Some properties of a Cauchy family on the sphere derived from the Möbius transformations. Bernoulli, 26, 3224-3248.
  11. Taniguchi, M., Kato, S., Ogata, H. and Pewsey, A. (2020). Models for circular data from time series spectra. Journal of Time Series Analysis, 41, 808-829.
  12. Rivest, L.-P. and Kato, S. (2019). A random effects model for clustered circular data. The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 47, 712-728.
  13. Leguey, I., Larrãnaga, P., Bielza, C. and Kato, S. (2019). A circular-linear dependence measure under Johnson-Wehrly distributions and its application in Bayesian networks. Information Sciences, 486, 240-253.
  14. Kato, S. (2017). The wrapped Cauchy distribution on the circle and related statistical models (JSS Research Prize Lecture, in Japanese). Journal of the Japan Statistical Society, Japanese Issue, 46, 85-111.
  15. Pewsey, A. and Kato, S. (2016). Parametric bootstrap goodness-of-fit testing for Wehrly-Johnson bivariate circular distributions. Statistics and Computing, 26, 1307-1317.
  16. Kato, S. and Eguchi, S. (2016). Robust estimation of location and concentration parameters for the von Mises-Fisher distribution. Statistical Papers, 57, 205-234. [R code]
  17. Kato, S. and Pewsey, A. (2015). A Möbius transformation-induced distribution on the torus. Biometrika, 102, 359-370.
  18. Jones, M.C., Pewsey, A. and Kato, S. (2015). On a class of circulas: copulas for circular distributions. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 67, 843-862.
  19. Kato, S. and Jones, M.C. (2015). A tractable and interpretable four-parameter family of unimodal distributions on the circle. Biometrika, 102, 181-190.
  20. Takahashi, A., Sugimoto, H., Kato, S., Shiroishi, T. and Koide, T. (2015). Mapping of genetic factors that elicit intermale aggressive behavior on Mouse Chromosome 15: intruder effects and the complex genetic basis. PLOS ONE, 10(9), e0137764.
  21. Kato, S., Ishii, A., Nishi, A., Kuriki, S. and Koide, T. (2014). Segregation of a QTL cluster for home-cage activity using a new mapping method based on regression analysis of congenic mouse strains. Heredity, 113, 416-423.
  22. Kato, S. and Jones, M.C. (2013). An extended family of circular distributions related to wrapped Cauchy distributions via Brownian motion. Bernoulli, 19, 154-171.
  23. Eguchi, S., Komori, O. and Kato, S. (2011). Projective power entropy and maximum Tsallis entropy distributions. Entropy, 13, 1746-1764.
  24. Kato, S. (2010). A Markov process for circular data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 72, 655-672. [Preprint]
  25. Kato, S. and Jones, M.C. (2010). A family of distributions on the circle with links to, and applications arising from, Möbius transformation. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 102, 249-262.
  26. Eguchi, S. and Kato, S. (2010). Entropy and divergence associated with power function and the statistical application. Entropy, 12, 262-274.
  27. Kato, S. (2009). A distribution for a pair of unit vectors generated by Brownian motion. Bernoulli, 15, 898-921.
  28. Faravani, M., Baki, B.B., Kato, S., Shimizu, K. and Sim, C.H. (2009). Effects of intra-plant competition on the ensuing spatial branching patterns of Straits Rhododenron. Research Journal of Environmental Sciences, 3, 427-438.
  29. Kato, S., Shimizu, K. and Shieh, G.S. (2008). A circular-circular regression model. Statistica Sinica, 18, 633-645.
  30. Kato, S. and Shimizu, K. (2008). Dependent models for observations which include angular ones. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 3538-3549.
  31. Siew, H.-Y., Kato, S. and Shimizu, K. (2008). The generalized t-distribution on the circle. Japanese Journal of Applied Statistics, 37, 1-16.


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