R: Circular Dispersion

circ.disp {CircStats} | R Documentation

## Circular Dispersion

### Description

Computes measures of dispersion for a directional data set.

### Usage

    circ.disp(x)

### Arguments

`x` | vector of circular data measured in radians.

### 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).

### 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.

[Package CircStats version 0.2-4 Index]