Abstract
The two primary goals of Fisher’s 1953 paper “Dispersion on a Sphere” [CP 249] are: (i) to explore methodology for the analysis of more or less widely dispersed measurements of direction such as frequently arise in geology; and (ii) to “exhibit in a clear light” the “nature of inductive inferences”, specifically to provide a non-standard example illustrating the correct application of fiducial inference.
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Bingham, C. (1980). Distribution on the Sphere. In: Fienberg, S.E., Hinkley, D.V. (eds) R.A. Fisher: An Appreciation. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6079-0_17
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