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help for circylowess
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Smoothing including lowess for circular data, y variable circular

circylowess yvar xvar [if exp] [in range] [ , generate(newvar) lowess(lowess_options) scatter(scatter_options) plot(plot) ]

Description

circylowess carries out smoothing (including lowess) of a circular y variable yvar (specified first in the varlist) with respect to some non-circular x variable xvar. yvar should take on values between 0 and 360 degrees. The smoothed result is

arctan(smoothed sine of yvar / smoothed cosine of yvar)

and the kind and degree of smoothing are specified by invoking options of lowess. circscatter is used to show the results graphically.

Options

generate() specifies a new variable to be generated containing the results of smoothing.

lowess() specifies options allowed with lowess. The following are relevant: mean, noweight, bwidth(), logit and adjust.

scatter() specifies options allowed with circscatter.

plot(plot) provides a way to add other plots to the generated graph; see help plot_option.

Examples

. circylowess wallasp length, gen(lowess) scatter(yla(,ang(h)))

Author

Nicholas J. Cox, University of Durham, U.K. n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk

Also see

On-line: help for lowess, circscatter, circxlowess