Hi Daniel, I also think these would be interesting. I am myself very interested in the sampling part, as we actually recently added poisson disk sampling which internally uses hypersphere sampling. I would be happy to help with this work. Cheers, Pamphile (@tupui)
On 5 Jun 2022, at 17:04, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, I think both have a place in scipy.stats. Thanks!
On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 5:55 AM Daniel Schmitz <danielschmitzsiegen@googlemail.com> wrote: Hi everyone,
recently questions came up with regards to statistics on the unit sphere in scipy.
Issue 12041 raises the question if spherical mean/variance should be added as descriptive statistics similar to circmean/circvar . The canonical reference for all things related to statistics on the unit sphere is "Directional Statistics" by Mardia & Jupp.
Another important basic functionality is the generation of random samples on the unit sphere: discussion was started in this issue .
Any strong opinion against these? I think at least the random number generation is reimplemented every day around the world (done so myself at least 2 times) and would strongly benefit from being part of scipy.
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