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Preface; 1. The purpose of the book; 2. Survey of contents; 3. How touse the book; 4. Notation, terminology and conventions; 5.Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: Part II. Descriptive Methods:2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Data display; 2.3. Simple summary quantities;2.4. Modifications for axial data; Part III. Models: 3.1. Introduction;3.2. Notation; trigonometric moments; 3.3. Probability distributions onthe circle; Part IV. Analysis of a Single Sample of Data: 4.1.Introduction; 4.2. Exploratory analysis; 4.3. Testing a sample of unitvectors for uniformity; 4.4. Nonparametric methods for unimodal data;4.5. Statistical analysis of a random sample of unit vectors from a vonMises distribution; 4.6. Statistical analysis of a random sample ofunit vectors from a multimodal distribution; 4.7. Other topics; Part V.Analysis of Two or More Samples, and of Other Experimental Layouts:5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Exploratory analysis; 5.3. Nonparametricmethods for analysing two or more samples of unimodal data; 5.4.Analysis of two or more samples from von Mises distributions; 5.5.Analysis of data from more complicated experimental designs; Part VI.Correlation and Regression: 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Linear-circularassociation and circular-linear association; 6.3. Circular-circularassociation; 6.4. Regression models for a circular response variable;Part VII. Analysis of Data with Temporal or Spatial Structure: 7.1.Introduction; 7.2. Analysis of temporal data; 7.3. Spatial analysis;Part VIII. Some Modern Statistical Techniques for Testing andEstimation: 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. Bootstrap methods for confidenceintervals and hypothesis tests: general description; 8.3. Bootstrapmethods for circular data: confidence regions for the mean direction;8.4. Bootstrap methods for circular data: hypothesis tests for meandirections; 8.5. Randomisation, or permutation, tests; Appendix A.Tables; Appendix B. Data sets; References; Index.