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Circular Mode

Source: R/statistics.R
circular_mode.Rd

MLE angle (maximum density) using a circular distribution kernel with specified concentration

Usage

circular_mode(x, ...)

Arguments

x

numeric. A vector of angles (in degrees) from which the estimate is to be computed.

...

parameters passed to circular_density()

Value

numeric

References

N.I. Fisher (1993) Statistical Analysis of Circular Data, Cambridge University Press.

Examples

set.seed(20250411)
x <- rvm(10, 0, 100)

# Mode of von Mises kernel density (the default)
circular_mode(x)
#> [1] 176.8297

# Mode of wrapped Cauchy kernel density
circular_mode(x, kernel = "wrappedcauchy")
#> [1] 176.1252