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cor2: Utility function

Description

Called by various functions to calculate Pearson or angular correlation matrixes.

Usage

cor2(x, y = NULL, circ=FALSE)

Arguments

x
a matrix.
y
an optional second matrix.
circ
if TRUE, the observations are assumed to be angular (in radians), and circular correlation is used. If FALSE, Pearson product moment correlations is returned.

Value

  • A correlation matrix is returned.

Details

An auxilliary function to ease the maintenance.

References

Jammalamadaka, S. Rao and SenGupta, A. (2001). Topics in Circular Statistics, Section 8.2, World Scientific Press, Singapore.