gaussianSimilarity
Evaluation of a data set to see if it is close to a 1D Gaussian distribution
Contents
Syntax
- similarity=gaussianSimilarity(x, binNum)
- similarity=gaussianSimilarity(x, binNum, plotOpt)
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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