## Minimum distance method for directional data and outlier detection.(English)Zbl 1416.62175

Summary: In this paper, we propose estimators based on the minimum distance for the unknown parameters of a parametric density on the unit sphere. We show that these estimators are consistent and asymptotically normally distributed. Also, we apply our proposal to develop a method that allows us to detect potential atypical values. The behavior under small samples of the proposed estimators is studied using Monte Carlo simulations. Two applications of our procedure are illustrated with real data sets.

### MSC:

 62F35 Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) 62G05 Nonparametric estimation 62G20 Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference

### Software:

CircStats; movMF; wle; circular
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