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Circular correlations between two circular variables: Circular correlations between two circular variables

Description

Circular correlations between two circular variables.

Usage

circ.cor1(theta, phi, rads = FALSE)

circ.cor2(theta, phi, rads = FALSE)

Value

A vector including:

rho

The value of the correlation coefficient.

p-value

The p-value of the zero correlation hypothesis testing.

Arguments

theta

The first cirular variable.

phi

The other cirular variable.

rads

If the data are expressed in rads, then this should be TRUE. If the data are in degrees, then this is FALSE.

Author

Michail Tsagris.

R implementation and documentation: Michail Tsagris mtsagris@uoc.gr and Giorgos Athineou <gioathineou@gmail.com>.

Details

circ.cor1: Correlation for circular variables using the cosinus and sinus formula of Jammaladaka and SenGupta (1988).

circ.cor2: Correlation for circular variables using the cosinus and sinus formula of Mardia and Jupp (2000).

References

Jammalamadaka, R. S. and Sengupta, A. (2001). Topics in circular statistics. World Scientific.

Jammalamadaka, S. R. and Sarma, Y. R. (1988) . A correlation coefficient for angular variables. Statistical Theory and Data Analysis, 2:349--364.

Mardia, K. V. and Jupp, P. E. (2000). Directional statistics. Chicester: John Wiley & Sons.

See Also

circlin.cor, circ.cor2, spml.reg

Examples

Run this code
y <- runif(50, 0, 2 * pi)
x <- runif(50, 0, 2 * pi)
circ.cor1(x, y, rads = TRUE)
circ.cor2(x, y, rads = TRUE)

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