angular.deviation {circular} | R Documentation |
Returns the square root of twice one minus the mean resultant length divided by the sample size of a vector of circular data.
angular.deviation(x, na.rm = FALSE)
x |
a vector. The object is coerced to class
|
na.rm |
logical, indicating if |
Returns the square root of twice one minus the mean resultant length divided by the sample size.
Claudio Agostinelli
Batschelet, E. (1981) Circular Statistics in Biology. Academic Press, London.
Jammalamadaka, S. Rao and SenGupta, A. (2001). Topics in Circular Statistics, Section 1.3, World Scientific Press, Singapore.
Zar, J.H. (2010) Biostatistical Analysis. Fifth edition. Pearson Educational International.
sd.circular
, angular.variance
, mean.circular
, rho.circular
and summary.circular
.
x <- rvonmises(n=100, mu=circular(0), kappa=1)
angular.deviation(x)