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dw7672

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Jul 12, 2005
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I am doing some random samples real mearsurmenst from an indoor enviornment and I am using a software to simualte this enviornment to have the readings also , I want to see the effiecny of the software , what statistical paramterers of random variable are needed to comprate two results
 
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You haven't described what you are trying to do well enough for us to help. Can you give the data you want to test?


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Greg Locock

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If the variables follow a normal distribution then compare the means and standard deviation with your software

corus
 
it is supposed to follow a rice or rayleigh distribution
 
First find out what distribution do the samples belong to most likely. Then make statistical moments (first,second,...). Then you can find a possible trend, if there is some. Look for periodicity by finding autocorrelations and FFT. Construct an ARIMA model to find the level of randomness.
m777182
 
Rayleigh is a bit problematical. Best bet is to rescale the x axis so that you get a symmetrical distribution, and then apply the t test etc. Alternatively go back to the mathematical derivation of the Rayleigh distribution and work out the probabilities from there. I don't know how practical that is.

You may find the chi square distribution applicable, directly to the data, but I've never used it.





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