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Research sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, AFSC, USAF, under Grant No. AFOSR 71-2009.
I am grateful to Professor C. R. Rao of the Indian Statistical Institute for his encouragement and advice.
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Rao, J.S. Some variants of chi-square for testing uniformity on the circle. Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie verw Gebiete 22, 33–44 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00538904
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