Rayleigh test can refer to :
* a test for periodicity in irregularly sampled data.
* a derivation of the above to test for non-uniformity (as unimodal clustering) of a set of points on a circle (eg compass directions). Sometimes known as the Rayleigh z test.
Lecture on directional statistics
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See also
* Circular distribution
In probability and statistics, a circular distribution or polar distribution is a probability distribution of a random variable whose values are angles, usually taken to be in the range A circular distribution is often a continuous probability ...
* Directional statistics Directional statistics (also circular statistics or spherical statistics) is the subdiscipline of statistics that deals with directions (unit vectors in Euclidean space, R''n''), axes (lines through the origin in R''n'') or rotations in R''n''. Mor ...
* Kuiper's test Kuiper's test is used in statistics to test that whether a given distribution, or family of distributions, is contradicted by evidence from a sample of data. It is named after Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Kuiper.
Kuiper's test is closely related ...
* Rayleigh distribution
* Watson test
* Rayleigh plot
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A test for the significance of the mean direction and the concentration parameter of a circular distribution.
Theory of probability distributions
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