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SciPy: von Mises distribution on a half circle?

I'm trying to figure out the best way to define a von-Mises distribution wrapped on a half-circle (I'm using it to draw directionless lines at different concentrations). I'm currently using SciPy's vonmises.rvs(). Essentially, I want to be able to put in, say, a mean orientation of pi/2 and have the distribution truncated to no more than pi/2 either side.

I could use a truncated normal distribution, but I will lose the wrapping of the von-mises (say if I want a mean orientation of 0)

I've seen this done in research papers looking at mapping fibre orientations, but I can't figure out how to implement it (in python). I'm a bit stuck on where to start.

If my von Mesis is defined as (from numpy.vonmises):

np.exp(kappa*np.cos(x-mu))/(2*np.pi*i0(kappa))

with:

mu, kappa = 0, 4.0

x = np.linspace(-np.pi, np.pi, num=51)

How would I alter it to use a wrap around a half-circle instead?

Could anyone with some experience with this offer some guidance?

Solution

  • Is is useful to have direct numerical inverse CDF sampling, it should work great for distribution with bounded domain. Here is code sample, building PDF and CDF tables and sampling using inverse CDF method. Could be optimized and vectorized, of course

    Code, Python 3.8, x64 Windows 10

    import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import scipy.integrate as integrate

def PDF(x, μ, κ):
    return np.exp(κ*np.cos(x - μ))

N = 201

μ = np.pi/2.0
κ = 4.0

xlo = μ - np.pi/2.0
xhi = μ + np.pi/2.0

# PDF normaliztion

I = integrate.quad(lambda x: PDF(x, μ, κ), xlo, xhi)
print(I)
I = I[0]

x = np.linspace(xlo, xhi, N, dtype=np.float64)
step = (xhi-xlo)/(N-1)

p = PDF(x, μ, κ)/I # PDF table

# making CDF table
c = np.zeros(N, dtype=np.float64)

for k in range(1, N):
    c[k] = integrate.quad(lambda x: PDF(x, μ, κ), xlo, x[k])[0] / I

c[N-1] = 1.0 # so random() in [0...1) range would work right

#%%
# sampling from tabular CDF via insverse CDF method

def InvCDFsample(c, x, gen):
    r = gen.random()
    i = np.searchsorted(c, r, side='right')
    q = (r - c[i-1]) / (c[i] - c[i-1])
    return (1.0 - q) * x[i-1] + q * x[i]

# sampling test
RNG = np.random.default_rng()

s = np.empty(20000)

for k in range(0, len(s)):
    s[k] = InvCDFsample(c, x, RNG)

# plotting PDF, CDF and sampling density
plt.plot(x, p, 'b^') # PDF
plt.plot(x, c, 'r.') # CDF
n, bins, patches = plt.hist(s, x, density = True, color ='green', alpha = 0.7)
plt.show()

    and graph with PDF, CDF and sampling histogram

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