gaussianSimilarity

Evaluation of a data set to see if it is close to a 1D Gaussian distribution

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Syntax

Description

similarity=gaussianSimilarity(x, binNum) return the similarity of the dataset being generated by a 1D Gaussian PDF

Example

dataNum=1000;
x=randn(dataNum, 1);
subplot(2,1,1);
gaussianSimilarity(x, 20, 1);
x=rand(dataNum, 1);
subplot(2,1,2);
gaussianSimilarity(x, 20, 1);
Average abs. difference = 0.0172748, similarity to Gaussian = 0.971023
Average abs. difference = 0.148005, similarity to Gaussian = 0.313425

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