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CircStats (version 0.2-7)

circ.disp: Circular Dispersion

Description

Computes measures of dispersion for a directional data set.

Usage

circ.disp(x)

Value

Returns a dataframe with the following components. The sample size, n; the resultant length, r; the mean resultant length, rbar= r/n; and the circular variance, var=(1-r/n).

Arguments

x

vector of circular data measured in radians.

References

Jammalamadaka, S. Rao and SenGupta, A. (2001). Topics in Circular Statistics, Section 1.3, World Scientific Press, Singapore.

See Also

circ.mean, circ.summary, est.kappa, est.rho.