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 (e.g. compass directions), sometimes known as the Rayleigh ''z'' test.
Lecture on directional statistics
See also
* Circular distribution
* 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''. ...
* Kuiper's test
* Rayleigh distribution
In probability theory and statistics, the Rayleigh distribution is a continuous probability distribution for nonnegative-valued random variables. Up to rescaling, it coincides with the chi distribution with two degrees of freedom.
The distributi ...
* 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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