correct.acrophase: Acrophase Correction

In cosinor2: Extended Tools for Cosinor Analysis of Rhythms

Description

Corrects the value of the acrophase parameter of the cosinor model, placing it in the appropriate quadrant.

Usage

correct.acrophase(x)

Arguments

x	An object of the cosinor.lm class.

Details

The acrophase parameter of a cosinor model is found by solving an equation with inverse tangent of an expression which contains linearized cosinor parameters. However, multiple numeric entities may result in a same value of tangent and just calculating the inverse tangent may result with the wrong value of the acrophase. This function corrects the acrophase from the cosinor.lm object according to the procedure from Bingham et al. (1982). More specifically, the acrophase is calculated as:

K + g * arctan \vert\frac{γ}{β}\vert

where values of K and g depend on the signs of β and γ and can be derived from the following table:

sign β	sign γ	K	g
+	+	0	-1
+	-	-2π	1
-	+	-π	1
-	-	-π	-1

References

Bingham, C., Arbogast, B., Guillaume Cornélissen, G., Lee, J.K. & Halberg, F. (1982). Inferential Statistical Methods for Estimating and Comparing Cosinor Parameters. Chronobiologia, 9(4), 397-439.

Examples

fit.temperature<-cosinor.lm(Temperature~time(Time), period = 24, data = temperature_zg)
correct.acrophase(fit.temperature)

Example output

Loading required package: cosinor
[1] -4.127021

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