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Spherical regression models with general covariates and anisotropic errors

Paine, P. J.; Preston, S. P.; Tsagris, M.; Wood, Andrew T. A.

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Authors

P. J. Paine

SIMON PRESTON simon.preston@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Statistics and Applied Mathematics

M. Tsagris

Andrew T. A. Wood



Abstract

Existing parametric regression models in the literature for response data on the unit sphere assume that the covariates have particularly simple structure, for example that they are either scalar or are themselves on the unit sphere, and/or that the error distribution is isotropic. In many practical situations such models are too inflexible. Here we develop richer para-metric spherical regression models in which the co-variates can have quite general structure (for example, they may be on the unit sphere, in Euclidean space, categorical, or some combination of these) and in which the errors are anisotropic. We consider two anisotropic error distributions — the Kent distribution and the elliptically symmetric angular Gaussian distribution — and two parametrisations of each which enable distinct ways to model how the response depends on the covariates. Various hypotheses of interest, such as the significance of particular covariates, or anisotropy of the errors, are easy to test, for example by classical likelihood ratio tests. We also introduce new model-based residuals for evaluating the fitted models. In the examples we consider, the hypothesis tests indicate strong evidence to favour the novel models over simpler existing ones.

Citation

Paine, P. J., Preston, S. P., Tsagris, M., & Wood, A. T. A. (2020). Spherical regression models with general covariates and anisotropic errors. Statistics and Computing, 30(1), 153–165. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-019-09872-2

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 2, 2019
Online Publication Date Apr 13, 2019
Publication Date 2020-02
Deposit Date Apr 9, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Statistics and Computing
Print ISSN 0960-3174
Electronic ISSN 1573-1375
Publisher Springer Verlag
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 30
Issue 1
Pages 153–165
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-019-09872-2
Keywords angular Gaussian distribution · Kent; distribution · model selection · residuals · spherical; data
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1770889
Publisher URL https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11222-019-09872-2

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