Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples
Returns the mean direction of a vector of circular data.
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x |
a vector. The object is coerced to class
|
na.rm |
logical, indicating if |
control.circular |
the attribute of the resulting object. |
... |
further arguments passed to or from other methods. |
Each observation is treated as a unit vector, or point on the unit
circle. The resultant vector of the observations is found, and the
direction of the resultant vector is returned. An NA
is
returned if the resultant length (see rho.circular
) is
less than .Machine
Returns the mean direction of the data as an object of class circular
with the attribute given by control.circular
or from x
if missed in control.circular
.
Claudio Agostinelli and Ulric Lund
Jammalamadaka, S. Rao and SenGupta, A. (2001). Topics in Circular Statistics, Section 1.3, World Scientific Press, Singapore.
var.circular
, summary.circular
,
mle.vonmises
, rho.circular
and .Machine
.
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