% % math495/stat490 -- 02 october 03 -- djm % % w05bivar.m: figure(1); clf rand('state',6543210) for j=1:4 switch j % initialize params (-1 < rho < +1) case{1} sx = 1.0; sy = 1.0; rho = 0.0; alpha = asin(rho)/2; Nrvs = 1000; case{2} sx = 1.0; sy = 1.0; rho = 0.5; alpha = asin(rho)/2; Nrvs = 1000; case{3} sx = 3.0; sy = 1.0; rho = 0.0; alpha = asin(rho)/2; Nrvs = 1000; case{4} sx = 2.0; sy = 1.0; rho = 0.5; alpha = asin(rho)/2; Nrvs = 1000; end % transformation matrix Tmat = [ cos(alpha)/sx -sin(alpha)/sy ; -sin(alpha)/sx cos(alpha)/sy ] / sqrt(1-rho^2); Imat = inv(Tmat); % make Nrvs random pairs XYrvs = randn(2,Nrvs); BIrvs = Imat*XYrvs; % scatterplot subplot(2,2,j) plot(BIrvs(1,:),BIrvs(2,:),'.') data = ['\bf (' num2str(sx) ',' num2str(sy) ',' num2str(rho) ')']; title(['\bf scatterplot of (\sigma_x,\sigma_y,\rho) = ' ... data]) xlabel('\bf x-axis') ylabel('\bf y-axis') axis equal mean_xy = [mean(BIrvs(1,:)) mean(BIrvs(2,:))] cov_xy = cov(BIrvs(1,:),BIrvs(2,:)) end