circ_descr: A set of descriptive statistics for circular data

In circhelp: Circular Analyses Helper Functions

A set of descriptive statistics for circular data

Description

A set of descriptive statistics for circular data

Usage

circ_descr(x, w = NULL, d = NULL, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x	vector of angles
w	weights for the values in the vector
d	correction for the bias for data with known spacing
na.rm	a logical value indicating whether NA values should be removed before the computation proceeds

Value

a list with descriptive statistics

• mu - mean

• sigma - standard deviation

• skew_pewsey - skewness as defined by Pewsey

• skew_fischer - skewness as defined by Fischer

• rho - mean resultant length

• skew_rel_to_zero - skewness relative to zero

Examples

x <- c(rnorm(50, 0, 0.5), rnorm(20, 1, 0.5))
circ_descr(x)

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