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.
See also
- Circular distribution
- Directional statistics
- Kuiper's test
- Rayleigh distribution
- Watson test
- Rayleigh plot
References
- Confidence Intervals from the Rayleigh Test
- MATLAB code for circ_rtest function.
- Lecture on directional statistics.
External links
- A test for the significance of the mean direction and the concentration parameter of a circular distribution.
- Rao's spacing test - contrasted with Rayleigh test
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