Circular standard deviation — circular_sd • ggcircular

Uses the common descriptive statistic sqrt(-2 * log(Rbar)).

Usage

circular_sd(x, axial = FALSE, na.rm = TRUE)

Arguments

x: Numeric vector of angles in radians.
axial: Should the data be treated as axial, modulo pi?
na.rm: Should missing values be removed?

Value

Circular standard deviation in radians.

See also

Other circular summaries: circular_mean_ci(), circular_summary(), circular_variance(), estimate_kappa(), mean_direction(), mean_resultant_length(), resultant_length()