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Contributors:
Tal Krasovsky
Reference:
P. Berens, CircStat: A Matlab Toolbox for Circular Statistics, Journal of
Statistical Software, Volume 31, Issue 10, 2009
http://www.jstatsoft.org/v31/i10
Please cite this paper when the provided code is used. See licensing terms for
details.
Contents:
circ_r Resultant vector length
circ_mean Mean direction of a sample of circular data
circ_axial Mean direction for axial data
circ_median Median direction of a sample of circular data
circ_std Dispersion around the mean direction (std, mardia)
circ_var Circular variance
circ_skewness Circular skewness
circ_kurtosis Circular kurtosis
circ_moment Circular p-th moment
circ_dist Distances around a circle
circ_dist2 Pairwise distances around a circle
circ_confmean Confidence intervals for mean direction
circ_stats Summary statistics
Since 2010, most functions for descriptive statistics can be used in Matlab style
matrix computations. As a last argument, add the dimension along which you want to
average. This changes the behavior slightly from previous relaeses, in that input
is not reshaped anymore into vector format. Per default, all computations are
performed columnwise (along dimension 1). If you prefer to use the old functions,
for now they are contained in the subdirectory 'old'.
References:
- E. Batschelet, Circular Statistics in Biology, Academic Press, 1981
- N.I. Fisher, Statistical analysis of circular data, Cambridge University Press,
1996
- S.R. Jammalamadaka et al., Topics in circular statistics, World Scientific, 2001
- J.H. Zar, Biostatistical Analysis, Prentice Hall, 1999
Disclaimer:
All functions in this toolbox were implemented with care and tested on the examples
presented in 'Biostatistical Analysis' were possible. Nevertheless, they may
contain errors or bugs, which may affect the outcome of your analysis. We do not
take responsibility for any harm coming from using this toolbox, neither if it is
caused by errors in the software nor if it is caused by its improper application.
Please email us any bugs you find.