cdf of a generated random variable is not summing to 1, any reason?
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POKU GYASI
el 3 de Nov. de 2021
Respondida: POKU GYASI
el 20 de Abr. de 2022
please i have generated a uniform random variable
y = 5 + (8-5).*rand(3600,1)
. i run the cdf of the generated data using the code
pd = fitdist(y1,'Normal');
y1 = sort(y)
yy = pdf(pd,y1);
cy = cdf(pd,y1);
plot(y1,cy)
but the plot shows that the sum is not equal to 1. please can someone help me find the reason? and how to solve this problem?
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Walter Roberson
el 3 de Nov. de 2021
You are fitting a finite uniform random distribution as-if it were a Normal distribution -- which is an infinite distribution.
Then you expect the cumulative distribution over the finite sample to be exactly equal to 1.
But we know that cdf from -infinity to +infinity is 1 for Normal distribution, and in the best possible case, if the uniform random values just happened to look normal over the interval, we would expect that the cdf for the interval would be equal to the cdf from -infinity to the upper bound, minus the cdf from -infinity to the lower bound. The only time the result could be 1 would be if the upper bound of the interval was +infinity and the lower bound was -infinity... but your upper bound is 8 and your lower bound is 5.
You should not expect cdf of 1 for this situation.
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Walter Roberson
el 3 de Nov. de 2021
y = 5 + (8-5).*rand(3600,1);
y1 = sort(y);
pd = fitdist(y,'Normal')
yy = pdf(pd,y1);
cy = cdf(pd,y1);
plot(y1,cy)
cy(end) - cy(1)
cdf(pd, 8) - cdf(pd, 5)
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