Returns the circular standard deviation of a vector of circular data which is
defined as the square root of minus 2 times the log of the mean resultant
length divided by the number of observations.
Usage
# S3 method for circular
sd(x, na.rm = FALSE, ...)
Value
Returns the circular standard deviation.
Arguments
x
a vector. The object is coerced to class
circular.
# Compute the circular standard deviation of a random# sample of observations from a von Mises distributionx <- rvonmises(n=100, mu=circular(0, units="degrees"), kappa=10)
sd(x)