Rayleigh test

Rayleigh test can refer to :

  • a test for periodicity in irregularly sampled data.[1]
  • a derivation of the above to test for non-uniformity (as unimodal clustering) of a set of points on a circle (eg compass directions).[2] Sometimes known as the Rayleigh z test.[3]

See also

  • Circular distribution
  • Directional statistics
  • Kuiper's test
  • Rayleigh distribution
  • Watson test
  • Rayleigh plot

References

  1. ^ Confidence Intervals from the Rayleigh Test
  2. ^ MATLAB code for circ_rtest function
  3. ^ Lecture on directional statistics

External links

  • A test for the significance of the mean direction and the concentration parameter of a circular distribution.
  • Rao's spacing test - contrasted with Rayleigh test
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