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In directional statistics, the projected normal distribution is a probability distribution over directions that describes the radial projection of a random variable with n-variate normal distribution over the unit (n-1)-sphere. Wikipedia →

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  3. Read the landmark paper: Directional data analysis under the general projected normal distributionCited 82 times
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