circ.s {discharge}R Documentation

Estimate directional statistics for one-sigma events

Description

Uses the package "CircStats" to find the mean direction, rho, and kappa of the von Mises distribution summarizing the ordinal day of high- and low-flow events.

Usage

circ.s(x) 

Arguments

x

Output from "compare.periods" function (of class "compflows").

Value

circstats

data.frame with rows corresponding to the high- and low-flows for both periods. The columns list n, mu, rho, and kappa as calculated using the CircStats package.

See Also

compare.periods

Examples

# load data
data("sycamore")

# compare for periods from 1960 to 1979 and 1980 to 1999
comp = compare.periods(c("1960-01-01", "1979-12-31"), 
c("1980-01-01", "1999-12-31"), sycamore, plot=FALSE)

circ.s(comp)

[Package discharge version 1.0.0 Index]