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Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 209-212). Also available via the Internet.

by Carl Ka-fai Wong. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references. / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter §1.1 --- Directional Data and Computer Simulation --- p.1 / Chapter §1.2 --- Computer Simulation Techniques --- p.2 / Chapter §1.3 --- Implementation and Preliminaries --- p.4 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Generating Random Points on the N-sphere --- p.6 / Chapter §2.1 --- Methods --- p.6 / Chapter §2.2 --- Comparison of Methods --- p.10 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Generating Variates from Non-uniform Distributions on the Circle --- p.14 / Chapter §3.1 --- Introduction --- p.14 / Chapter §3.2 --- Methods for Circular Distributions --- p.15 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Generating Variates from Non-uniform Distributions on the Sphere --- p.28 / Chapter §4.1 --- Introduction --- p.28 / Chapter §4.2 --- Methods for Spherical Distributions --- p.29 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Generating Variates from Non-uniform Distributions on the N-sphere --- p.56 / Chapter §5.1 --- Introduction --- p.56 / Chapter §5.2 --- Methods for Higher Dimensional Spherical Distributions --- p.56 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Summary and Discussion --- p.69 / References --- p.72 / Appendix 1 --- p.77 / Appendix 2 --- p.98