CircStat

Description

CircStat is a Matlab toolbox containing a variety of functions for performing circular or directional statistics with MATLAB. The toolbox was MATLAB central's pick of the week. A detailed description can be found in:

P. Berens
CircStat: A Matlab Toolbox for Circular Statistics
Journal of Statistical Software, 2009
#circular statistics, #directional statistics, #software, #matlab
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Please cite this paper when the provided code is used. See licensing terms for details.

Contents:
circ_r: Resultant vector length
circ_mean: Mean direction of a sample of circular data
circ_axial: Mean direction for axial data
circ_median: Median direction of a sample of circular data
circ_std: Dispersion around the mean direction (std, mardia)
circ_var: Circular variance
circ_skewness: Circular skewness
circ_kurtosis: Circular kurtosis
circ_moment: Circular p-th moment
circ_dist: Distances around a circle
circ_dist2:Pairwise distances around a circle
circ_confmean: Confidence intervals for mean direction
circ_stats: Summary statistics

circ_rtest: Rayleigh's test for nonuniformity
circ_otest: Hodges-Ajne test (omnibus test) for nonuniformity
circ_raotest: Rao's spacing test for nonuniformity
circ_vtest: V-Test for nonuniformity with known mean direction
circ_medtest: Test for median angle
circ_mtest: One-sample test for specified mean direction
circ_wwtest: Multi-sample test for equal means, one-factor ANOVA
circ_hktest: Two-factor ANOVA
circ_ktest: Test for equal concentration parameter
circ_symtest: Test for symmetry around median angle
circ_kuipertest: Test whether two distributions are identical (like KS test)

circ_corrcc: Circular-circular correlation coefficient
circ_corrcl: Circular-linear correlation coefficient
circ_kappa: Compute concentration parameter of a vm distribution
circ_plot: Visualization for circular data
circ_clust: Simple clustering for circular data
circ_samplecdf: Evaluate CDF of a sample of angles
rad2ang: Convert radian to angular values
ang2rad: Convert angular to radian values

All functions take arguments in radians (expect for ang2rad). For a detailed description of arguments and outputs consult the help text in the files.

Since 2010, most functions for descriptive statistics can be used in Matlab style matrix computations. As a last argument, add the dimension along which you want to average. This changes the behavior slightly from previous relaeses, in that input is not reshaped anymore into vector format. Per default, all computations are performed columnwise (along dimension 1). If you prefer to use the old functions, for now they are contained in the subdirectory 'old'.

References: The implementation follows in most cases 'Biostatistical Analysis' and all referenced equations and tables are taken from this book, if not otherwise noted. In some cases, the other books were preferred for implementation was more straightforward for solutions presented there.

Contact:
If you have suggestions, bugs or feature requests or want to contribute code, please email me (berens@tuebingen.mpg.de).

All functions in this toolbox were implemented with care and tested on the examples presented in 'Biostatistical Analysis' were possible. Nevertheless, they may contain errors or bugs, which may affect the outcome of your analysis. We do not take responsibility for any harm coming from using this toolbox, neither if it is caused by errors in the software nor if it is caused by its improper application. Please email us any bugs you find.

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