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uniform

Circular Uniform Density Function

Description

Density and random generation for the Circular Uniform distribution on the whole circle.

Usage

dcircularuniform(x)
rcircularuniform(n, control.circular=list())

Arguments

x

a vector. The object is not coerced to class circular.
n

number of observations.
control.circular

the attribute of the resulting object.

Value

dcircularuniform gives the density and rcircularuniform generates random deviates.

Author(s)

Claudio Agostinelli

References

Jammalamadaka, S. Rao and SenGupta, A. (2001). Topics in Circular Statistics, Section 2.2.1, World Scientific Press, Singapore.

Examples

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

curve.circular(dcircularuniform, join=TRUE, xlim=c(-1.2, 1.2), 
  ylim=c(-1.2, 1.2), main="Density of a Circular Uniform Distribution")
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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