A coefficient to measure association between two random variables, each distributed on the surface of the unit sphere in p-dimensional space, is proposed, analogous to an existing correlation coefficient for circular data. The sample estimate is studied in detail for the case p = 3, and comparisons are made with other statistics in current use. Some applications are given to studying remanent magnetization in rock samples.
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Fisher et al. (1986) studied this question.
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