vtest

astropy.stats.vtest(data, mu=0.0, axis=None, weights=None)

Performs the Rayleigh test of uniformity where the alternative hypothesis H1 is assumed to have a known mean angle mu.

Parameters:

datandarray or Quantity

Array of circular (directional) data, which is assumed to be in radians whenever data is numpy.ndarray.

mufloat or Quantity [:ref: ‘angle’], optional

Mean angle. Assumed to be known.

axisint, optional

Axis along which the V test will be performed.

weightsnumpy.ndarray, optional

In case of grouped data, the i-th element of weights represents a weighting factor for each group such that sum(weights, axis) equals the number of observations. See [1], remark 1.4, page 22, for detailed explanation.

Returns:

p-valuefloat or Quantity [:ref: ‘dimensionless’]

References

[1]

S. R. Jammalamadaka, A. SenGupta. “Topics in Circular Statistics”. Series on Multivariate Analysis, Vol. 5, 2001.

[2]

C. Agostinelli, U. Lund. “Circular Statistics from ‘Topics in Circular Statistics (2001)’”. 2015. <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/CircStats/CircStats.pdf>

[3]

M. Chirstman., C. Miller. “Testing a Sample of Directions for Uniformity.” Lecture Notes, STA 6934/5805. University of Florida, 2007.

Examples

>>> import numpy as np
>>> from astropy.stats import vtest
>>> from astropy import units as u
>>> data = np.array([130, 90, 0, 145])*u.deg
>>> vtest(data) 
<Quantity 0.6223678199713766>