Spherical regression
球面回归
Methods are introduced for regressing points on the surface of one sphere on points on another. Complex variables and stereographic projection are used to deal with theoretical problems of directional statistics much as they have been used historically to deal with problems in non‐Euclidean geometry. The complex plane harbours the group of Möbius transformations, and stereographic projection is used as a bridge to map these Möbius transforms to regression link functions on…