[SciPy-Dev] Circular statistics revisted

[Robert Kern]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Todd <toddrjen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Recently I added a vector strength function to scipy.  I was interested in
> also adding some tests of circular statistics, which scipy currently lacks,
> and noticed there is already a circmean, circvar, and circstd functions.
> Matlab and R both have circular statistics toolboxes.
>
> I don't think this is something that would qualify for an entirely different
> namespace, but what about  moving "vector_strength" to scipy.stats and
> having a separate section for circular statistics in the scipy.stats
> documentation?  Then we might be able to add some more circular statistics
> functions there.

I think scipy.signal.vectorstrength is fine where it is. It can be
mentioned in the circular stats docs, though. Adding a new section to
the docs for the circular stats is a fine idea.

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Robert Kern