Circular Data Analysis

Functions to perform maximum likelihood estimation, model-based clustering, discriminant and regression analysis with a circular response variable. The standard textbook for such data is the "Directional Statistics" by Mardia, K. V. and Jupp, P. E. (2000). Other references include: Tsagris M. and Alzeley O. (2025). "Circular and spherical projected Cauchy distributions: A Novel Framework for Circular and Directional Data Modeling". Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 67(1): 77--103. . Tsagris M., Papastamoulis P. and Kato S. (2025). "Directional data analysis: spherical Cauchy or Poisson kernel-based distribution". Statistics and Computing, 35:51 . Alzeley O. and Tsagris (2026). "On the generalized circular projected Cauchy distribution". Mathematics, 14(11): 1934 .


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install.packages("circda")

1.1 by Michail Tsagris, a month ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/circda


Authors: Michail Tsagris [aut, cre]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL (>= 2) license


Imports circular, Directional, glmnet, graphics, rangen, Rfast, stats

Suggests Rfast2


See at CRAN