dvm {CircStats}

von Mises Density Function

Description

Returns the von Mises density function evaluated at a particular value.

Usage

dvm(theta, mu, kappa)

Arguments

theta

vector of angles measured in radians at which to evaluate the density function.

mu

mean direction of the distribution measured in radians.

kappa

non-negative numeric value for the concentration parameter of the distribution.

Value

Returns the von Mises density function evaluated at theta.

References

Jammalamadaka, S. Rao and SenGupta, A. (2001). Topics in Circular Statistics, Section 2.2.4, World Scientific Press, Singapore.

See Also

rvm