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kjetil b halvorsen ♦
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stats noob here.

I have a (circular) dataset with values in [0, 2pi]. I need some kind of a measure of how disperse or diverse the dataset is. I have looked a bit into non circular (regular) data, and I happened to come across coefficient of variation as a non-dimensional measure of dispersion in a dataset.

My question is: can I modify the coefficient of variation in my case as (circular stddev) / (circular mean) and use it as a dispersion measure?

Thanks a lot for your help!

stats noob here.

I have a (circular) dataset with values in [0, 2pi]. I need some kind of a measure of how disperse or diverse the dataset is. I have looked a bit into non circular (regular) data, and I happened to come across coefficient of variation as a non-dimensional measure of dispersion in a dataset.

My question is: can I modify the coefficient of variation in my case as (circular stddev) / (circular mean) and use it as a dispersion measure?

Thanks a lot for your help!

stats noob here.

I have a (circular) dataset with values in [0, 2pi]. I need some kind of a measure of how disperse or diverse the dataset is. I have looked a bit into non circular (regular) data, and I happened to come across coefficient of variation as a non-dimensional measure of dispersion in a dataset.

My question is: can I modify the coefficient of variation in my case as (circular stddev) / (circular mean) and use it as a dispersion measure?

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Ajinkya Kulkarni
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Measuring dispersion in circular data

stats noob here.

I have a (circular) dataset with values in [0, 2pi]. I need some kind of a measure of how disperse or diverse the dataset is. I have looked a bit into non circular (regular) data, and I happened to come across coefficient of variation as a non-dimensional measure of dispersion in a dataset.

My question is: can I modify the coefficient of variation in my case as (circular stddev) / (circular mean) and use it as a dispersion measure?

Thanks a lot for your help!