Timeline for Estimating direction from a distribution on a circle
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| Oct 14, 2010 at 17:06 | comment | added | gowers | What would happen if you make a new circle by identifying opposite points on the original circle, and then take the average as suggested in this comment? (I haven't checked, so this may have an obvious reason for not working.) | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 15:38 | comment | added | Andrei Kolin | The summation works in the case the direction is "signed" i.e. not symmetrical around 0. In my case this wont work: e.g. if there're 100 points at $p$ and 100 points at $-p$ their sum will be 0... Thanks for useful link, though. | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 12:59 | history | answered | Robby McKilliam | CC BY-SA 2.5 |