% % math495/stat490 -- 08 oct 03 -- djm % % w07hist.m: % clear workspace & plots clear; close all; figure(1); clf; hold on % experimental parameters (try Nrvs = 1,6,1000) Nrvs = 1000; mean_rv = 0.5; db = mean_rv/5; dx = db/10; % initialize random number generator phone = 2914814; rand('state',phone); % initialize with my office phone number % random data: uniform on (0,1) rvs = rand(Nrvs,1); xt = [-db/2 0 0 1 1 1+db/2]; theory = [0 0 1 1 0 0]; plot(xt,theory,'b'); hold on choice = 1; switch choice case {1} % histogram points xk = -db/2:dx:1+db/2; myhist = zeros(size(xk)); % build histogram for j=1:Nrvs s = (db/2-abs(xk-rvs(j))>0); myhist = myhist + s/sum(s)/dx; end title(['\bf estimated PDF via box histogram']) case {2} % histogram points xk = -mean_rv:dx:1+mean_rv; myhist = zeros(size(xk)); % build histogram for j=1:Nrvs s = exp(-(xk-rvs(j)).^2 / (2*db^2)) .* (abs(xk-rvs(j))