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 $\mathbb{R}^n$.
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 $\mathbb{R}^n$.