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triangular

Triangular Density Function

Description

Density and random generation for the Triangular circular distribution.

Usage

dtriangular(x, rho)
rtriangular(n, rho, control.circular=list())

Arguments

x

a vector. The object is coerced to class circular.
n

number of observations.
rho

concentration parameter of the distribution. rho must be between 0 and 4/pi^2.
control.circular

the attribute of the resulting object.

Value

dtriangular gives the density and rtriangular generates random deviates.

Author(s)

Claudio Agostinelli and Ulric Lund

References

Jammalamadaka, S. Rao and SenGupta, A. (2001). Topics in Circular Statistics, Section 2.2.3, World Scientific Press, Singapore.

Examples

data1 <- rtriangular(100, 0.3, control.circular=list(units="degrees"))
plot(data1)

ff <- function(x) dtriangular(x, rho=0.3)
curve.circular(ff, shrink=1.2, join=TRUE)
circular

Circular Statistics

v0.4-93
GPL-2
Authors
Ulric Lund <ulund@calpoly.edu> [aut], Claudio Agostinelli <claudio.agostinelli@unitn.it> [aut, cre], Hiroyoshi Arai <h_arai@aoni.waseda.jp> [ctb], Alessando Gagliardi <gagliardi@stud.unive.it> [ctb], Eduardo Garcia Portugues <edgarcia@est-econ.uc3m.es> [ctb], Dimitri Giunchi <dimitri.giunchi@unipi.it> [ctb], Jean-Olivier Irisson <irisson@normalesup.org> [ctb], Matthew Pocernich <pocernic@ucar.edu> [ctb], Federico Rotolo [ctb]
Initial release
2017-06-26

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