RA_long2 {mMARCH.AC}

Relative Amplitude for the Whole Datset

Description

This function calcualte relative amplitude, a nonparametric metric of circadian rhtymicity. This function is a whole dataset wrapper for RA.

Usage

RA_long2(
  count.data,
  window = 1,
  method = c("average", "sum"),
  noon2noon = FALSE
)

Arguments

count.data

data.frame of dimension n * (p+2) containing the p dimensional activity data for all n subject days. The first two columns have to be ID and Day. ID can be either character or numeric. Day has to be numeric indicating the sequency of days within each subject.

window

since the caculation of M10 and L5 depends on the dimension of data, we need to include window size as an argument. This function is a whole dataset wrapper for RA.

method

character of "sum" or "average", function used to bin the data

noon2noon

logical Specify if M10 and L5 were calculated from noon to noon. Default is FALSE.

Value

A data.frame with the following 3 columns

ID

ID

Day

Day

RA

RA