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Geometry of circular variables. To compute the average from samples of a circular variable, the (four-quadrant) arc tangent is computed from the average cosine and the average sine of the sample angles. The angle of the average resultant vector is the mean angle and one minus the magnitude of the resultant vector is the circular variance. Plotted are samples from two distributions with different means and circular variances (black and gray symbols).
