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The studied random deformations of the array are elliptical and are described by different Beta distributions. To successfully capture the erratic deviations in DOA estimates that occur at larger deformations, specifically at the edges of the distributions, a novel conformal map is introduced, based on the hyperbolic tangent function. The application of this new map is compared to regular gPC and Monte Carlo sampling as a reference. A significant increase in convergence rate is observed. 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