Homework #10.

Directional data analysis

10.1 Patients suffering from the oculomotor condition of

nystagmus have a pattern of eye movements in which the eye drifts
slowly in one direction, then flicks rapidly back in the opposite
direction. A sampling of 10 patients yielded the following data
indicating the habitual direction of slow drifts.

Patient Direction of drift

1 5
2 180
3 10
4 6
5 200
6 165
7 14
8 3
9 175
10 190

Determine the bias vector B, the mean direction, and the length of
the bias vector. Compute Rayleigh's statistic and test the null
hypothesis that the directions of drift are uniformly distributed over
the circle. Repeat the analysis to test for a possible periodicity of
180° (i.e. k=2 trigonometrical moment).

10.2 Subjects in a visual perception experiment were required to

indicate the apparent direction of motion of a drifting sinusoidal
grating. The target drifted in one of 8 possible directions (0°, 45°,
90°, 135°, 180°, 225°, 270°, 315°) chosen at random. Subjects were
constrained to these same 8 possible directions when indicating
their responses. For 100 stimulus trials, the results for 1 subject are
given in the following table.

Direction Number of responses

0° 5
45° 18
90° 10
135° 6
180° 22
225° 9
270° 14
315° 16
Determine the bias vector B, the mean direction, and the length of
the bias vector. Compute Rayleigh's statistic and test the null
hypothesis that the directions of response are uniformly distributed
over the circle.