[Scilab-users] spatial correlation coefficient: Is the MATLAB corrcoef function doing the job?

[Rafael Guerra]

You may want to study this article:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/574f/8f7347a258f6431fb8316716ca51b9b7eacb.pdf

it should give you a clue or two of what you may want to implement.


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1	The nearest neighbour distribution of N points in a 3d-Volume with
radius R is given by
W(r) = 1 - exp[ - N (r/r)^3] and this is a Weibull distribution and not a Poisson distribution. The WIKI article, while correct, is a typical case where high level statisticians are trying to make simple things look very complicated.

2	Comparing the experimental distribution with the above prediction is
made complicated as the manufactured object has small hard spheres that push each other apart in the manufacturing process and the Weibull is modified anyway.

3	I am sill searching for a 3d spatial characterization coefficient
that differentiates between purely random arrangements and gradual regular arrangements.

Heinz

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Q: "I have 10,000 xyz data and want to know, if there is some regularity in them or if they are more or less random"
A:  look for tests of spatial randomness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_spatial_randomness ) . If The experimental nearest neighbor distribution obtained previously can be compared to the expected Poisson distribution.


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