Accord.Tests.Statistics.NormalDistributionTest.ConstructorTest3 C# (CSharp) Method

ConstructorTest3() private method

private ConstructorTest3 ( ) : void
return void
        public void ConstructorTest3()
        {
            Accord.Math.Tools.SetupGenerator(0);

            // Create a normal distribution with mean 2 and sigma 3
            var normal = new NormalDistribution(mean: 2, stdDev: 3);

            // In a normal distribution, the median and
            // the mode coincide with the mean, so

            double mean = normal.Mean;     // 2
            double mode = normal.Mode;     // 2
            double median = normal.Median; // 2

            // The variance is the square of the standard deviation
            double variance = normal.Variance; // 3² = 9

            // Let's check what is the cumulative probability of
            // a value less than 3 occurring in this distribution:
            double cdf = normal.DistributionFunction(3); // 0.63055

            // Finally, let's generate 1000 samples from this distribution
            // and check if they have the specified mean and standard dev.

            double[] samples = normal.Generate(10000);


            double sampleMean = samples.Mean();             // 2.00
            double sampleDev = samples.StandardDeviation(); // 3.00

            Assert.AreEqual(2, mean);
            Assert.AreEqual(2, mode);
            Assert.AreEqual(2, median);

            Assert.AreEqual(9, variance);
            Assert.AreEqual(10000, samples.Length);
            Assert.AreEqual(2.000, sampleMean, 5e-3);
            Assert.AreEqual(3.000, sampleDev, 5e-3);
        }