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Directional statistics (also called circular or spherical statistics) is the discipline of statistics that deals with directions (unit vectors in $\mathbb{R}^n$), axes (lines through the origin in $\mathbb{R}^n$) or rotations in $\mathbb{R}^n$.

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Can one uniformly generate complex numbers of absolute value less than a given constant $R \...

The MathWorld entry DiskPointPicking asserts (without an explicit proof) that to generate uniformly distributed points ($x,y)$ in the unit disk, one should employ \begin{equation} x=\sqrt{r} \cos{\th …
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Can one uniformly generate complex numbers of absolute value less than a given constant R? This would appear to be equivalent to picking points $(x,y)$ uniformly in a disk of radius R, where $x$ is th …
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