circ.disp: Circular Dispersion

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circ.dispR Documentation

Circular Dispersion

Description

Computes measures of dispersion for a directional data set.

Usage

circ.disp(x)

Arguments

x

vector of circular data measured in radians.

Value

Returns a dataframe with the following components. The sample size, n; the resultant length, r; the mean resultant length, rbar= r/n; and the circular variance, var=(1-r/n).

References

Jammalamadaka, S. Rao and SenGupta, A. (2001). Topics in Circular Statistics, Section 1.3, World Scientific Press, Singapore.

See Also

circ.mean, circ.summary, est.kappa, est.rho.


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