Efficient algorithms for estimating the width of nearly normal distributions
dc.contributor.author | Akerlof, Carl W. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-07T18:41:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-07T18:41:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1983-06-15 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Akerlof, Carl W. (1983/06/15)."Efficient algorithms for estimating the width of nearly normal distributions." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 211(2-3): 439-445. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/25187> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B73DP-470WFMF-44/2/11234bb1e65ea87bcd6f8da1028db45f | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/25187 | |
dc.description.abstract | Typical physics data samples often conform to Gaussian distributions with admixtures of more slowly varying backgrounds. Under such circumstances the standard deviation is known to be a poor statistical measure of distribution width. As an alternative, the performance of Gini's mean difference is compared with the standard deviation and the mean deviation. Variants which sum over subsets of all possible pairs are shown to have statistical efficiencies comparable to the mean difference and mean deviation but do not require extensive data storage or a priori knowledge of the sample mean. These statistics are reasonable candidates for monitoring the distribution width of a real time data stream. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | Efficient algorithms for estimating the width of nearly normal distributions | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Physics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | andall Laboratory of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/25187/1/0000626.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167-5087(83)90272-7 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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