Summary statistics for circular data:
Summary statistics for circular data
Description
It produces a few summary measures for circular data.
Usage
circ.summary(u, rads = FALSE, plot = TRUE)
Arguments
u
A vector with circular data.
rads
If the data are in rads, then this should be TRUE, otherwise FALSE.
plot
If you want to see the data plotted on a cicrle make this TRUE.
Value
A list including:
A list including:
Details
It returns the circular mean, mean resultant length, variance, standard deviation and concentration parameter. So, basically it returns the estimated values of the parameters of the von Mises distribution.
References
Mardia, K. V. and Jupp, P. E. (2000). Directional statistics. Chicester: John Wiley & Sons.