Rayleigh test

<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Circular_distribution/GQbeMxHm">Circular distribution</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Directional_statistics/ucnUv52T">Directional statistics</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Kuiper%27s_test/WyPLHf4Q">Kuiper's test</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Rayleigh_distribution/vLFh4zHr">Rayleigh distribution</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Cram%C3%A9r%E2%80%93von_Mises_criterion/IdtN5xQV">Watson test</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Raleigh_plot/JtL9vbyS">Rayleigh plot</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/comp/docs/not011/not011.html">A test for the significance of the mean direction and the concentration parameter of a circular distribution.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/faculty/jammalam/html/favorite/test.htm">Rao's spacing test - contrasted with Rayleigh test</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Confidence Intervals from the Rayleigh Test <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1994MNRAS.268..709B" target="_blank">http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1994MNRAS.268..709B</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>MATLAB code for circ_rtest function. <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/10676-circular-statistics-toolbox--directional-statistics-/content//circ_rtest.m" target="_blank">http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/10676-circular-statistics-toolbox--directional-statistics-/content//circ_rtest.m</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Lecture on directional statistics. <a href="http://webspace.ship.edu/pgmarr/Geo441/Lectures/Lec%2016%20-%20Directional%20Statistics.pdf" target="_blank">http://webspace.ship.edu/pgmarr/Geo441/Lectures/Lec%2016%20-%20Directional%20Statistics.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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