[R] CircStats and Anova

[Spencer Graves]

	  It's not clear to me what you are asking.  Have you considered 
"aov.circular" in package "circular"?  The following example comes from 
the help page for that function:

 >      x <- c(rvonmises(50, 0, 1), rvonmises(100, pi/3, 10))
 >      group <- c(rep(0, 50), rep(1, 100))
 >
 >      aov.circular(x, group)

Call:
aov.circular(x = x, group = group)


  Circular Analysis of Variance: High Concentration F-Test

          df     SS     MS     F         p
Between   1  5.901 5.9009 34.15 3.135e-08
Within  148 29.431 0.1989    NA        NA
Total   149 35.332 0.2371    NA        NA


 >      aov.circular(x, group, method="LRT")

Call:
aov.circular(x = x, group = group, method = "LRT")


  Circular Analysis of Variance: Likelihood Ratio Test

  df:      1
  ChiSq:   29.31
  p.value: 6.163e-08

	  Does this provide what you want?  If no, I suggest you follow the 
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	  hope this helps.
	  spencer graves

Mueller, Adrienne wrote:

> Hi,
> If I have two sets of directional data (in radians) and want to compare them with a multifactorial anova.
> 
> Is it even legitimate to compare circular data with an anova? The books I've picked up from the library don't really say, but it looks unlikely.
> 
> If it is allowable, is my having stored the data as circular (X = as.circular(A)) something the aov() function will take into account, assuming the anova would be somewhat different for directional information?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Adrienne 
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