Cardioid              package:circular              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Density and random generation for the Cardioid circular
     distribution.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     dcardioid(x, mu = 0, rho = 0)
     rcardioid(n, mu = 0, rho = 0, units = c("radians", "degrees"), ...)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

       x: a vector. The object is coerced to class 'circular'.

       n: number of observations.

      mu: mean direction of the distribution.

     rho: concentration parameter of the distribution. Absolute value
          of 'rho' must be less than 0.5.

   units: units of measure desired.

     ...: parameters passed to 'circular'.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     'dcardioid' gives the density and 'rcardioid' generates random
     deviates.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Claudio Agostinelli and Ulric Lund

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Jammalamadaka, S. Rao and SenGupta, A. (2001). Topics in Circular
     Statistics, Section 2.2.2, World Scientific Press, Singapore.

