Dear All, Apologies that the date of Toby Lewis's talk this term was wrong in my earlier post of details of forthcoming seminars. Apologies for any inconvenience this has created. Correct details below. Bill Browne. University of Nottingham School of Mathematical Sciences Statistics and Probability Seminars, Summer 2004 Thursday 13th May 4.00pm Toby Lewis (University of East Anglia) "Wrapped distributions as models for directions in the plane" It is well known that the von Mises distribution for circular data is close to the wrapped normal and wrapped Cauchy distributions. The talk will be concerned with some further results in this area. Dr William Browne work phone : (0115) 9514940 Lecturer in Statistics home phone : (0115)9513373 Mathematical Sciences mobile : (0779) 1577701 University of Nottingham (Note this no. is also new) University Park E-mail : [log in to unmask] Nottingham NG7 2RD web: http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/htbin-local/staff.info?pmzwjb web (MLwiN): http://multilevel.ioe.ac.uk/ web (Publ.): http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/pmzwjb/bill.html This message has been scanned but we cannot guarantee that it and any attachments are free from viruses or other damaging content: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.