ecdf.circular: Empirical Cumulative Distribution Function for Circular Data

In circular: Circular Statistics

Description

Compute an empirical cumulative distribution function for a circular data set

Usage

## S3 method for class 'circular'
ecdf(x, from = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x	an object of class circular.
from	not yet used.
...	not yet used.

Details

We follows the definition of cumulative distribution function given in Mardia and Jupp (2000). In this version F(0) is set to 0. In future version F(from) will be set to 0.

Value

a function of class ecdf.circular to be use to evaluate the empirical cumulative distribution function of a circular data set.

Author(s)

Claudio Agostinelli

References

K.V. Mardia and P.E. Jupp (2000). Directional Statistics. Wiley.

Examples

x <- rvonmises(10, circular(0), 5)
plot(ecdf(x))
plot(ecdf(x), xlim=c(-20,20))    

Example output

Attaching package: 'circular'

The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':

    sd, var

circular documentation built on May 2, 2019, 4:42 p.m.