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Hence, there is a need for developing flexible distributions on the hyper-disc, which has support of the interior of the hyper-sphere, as it allows for modeling the combination of angular and linear observations. This paper addresses this need by developing flexible distributions for the disc that have the ability to capture any inherent bimodality present in the data. A new class of bivariate distributions is proposed which has support on the unit disc in two dimensions that includes, as a special case, the existing M\u00f6bius distribution on the disc. This class is obtained by expressing the density function in a general form using a measurable function termed as generator. Special cases of this generator are considered to demonstrate the flexibility. By applying a conformal mapping to the generator function a new M\u00f6bius distribution class emanates. This class of bivariate distributions on the disc is the first to account for bimodality and skewness present in the data. The flexible behavior of the proposed models in terms of bimodality and skewness is graphically demonstrated. Preliminary evidential analysis of the wind data observed at Marion Island reveals the absence of unimodality in the data. The fit of the proposed models, which account for bimodality, to the Marion Island wind data were evaluated analytically and visually.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym11081030","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,9]],"date-time":"2019-08-09T11:11:31Z","timestamp":1565349091000},"page":"1030","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["From Symmetry to Asymmetry on the Disc Manifold: Modeling of Marion Island Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4793-5674","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andriette","family":"Bekker","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1775-8905","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Priyanka","family":"Nagar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5881-9241","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohammad","family":"Arashi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa"},{"name":"Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood 3619995161, Iran"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hannes","family":"Rautenbach","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Natural Sciences, Akademia, and School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"280","DOI":"10.1016\/j.apenergy.2016.11.097","article-title":"On the selection of bivariate parametric models for wind data","volume":"188","author":"Soukissian","year":"2017","journal-title":"Appl. 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