est.rho {CircStats} | R Documentation |
Mean Resultant Length
Description
Returns the mean resultant length of a vector of circular data.
Usage
est.rho(x)
Arguments
x |
vector of data points measured in radians. |
Details
Each observation is treated as a unit vector, or point on the unit circle. The resultant vector of the observations is found, and the length of the resultant vector divided by the sample size is returned.
Value
Returns the mean resultant length of data.
References
Jammalamadaka, S. Rao and SenGupta, A. (2001). Topics in Circular Statistics, Section 1.3, World Scientific Press, Singapore.
See Also
circ.mean, circ.disp, circ.summary, est.kappa.
Examples
# Compute the mean resultant length of a random sample of observations.
data <- runif(100, 0, 2*pi)
est.rho(data)
[Package CircStats version 0.2-6 Index]