DOI: 10.1086/627211. The Statistics of Orientation Data

The Statistics of Orientation Data

10.1086/627211

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University of Chicago Press

The Journal of Geology (200)

Authors 1

Geoffrey S. Watson (first)

References 23 Referenced 190

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BINGHAM, C., 1964, Distributions on a sphere and on the projective plane. Ph.D. dissertation,Yale University.
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Created	16 years ago (Aug. 9, 2009, 9:58 p.m.)
Deposited	6 years, 3 months ago (May 21, 2019, 6:56 p.m.)
Indexed	1 week, 3 days ago (Aug. 20, 2025, 9:13 a.m.)
Issued	58 years, 11 months ago (Sept. 1, 1966)
Published	58 years, 11 months ago (Sept. 1, 1966)
Published Print	58 years, 11 months ago (Sept. 1, 1966)

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BibTeX

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