normal01_multivariate_distance

normal01_multivariate_distance, an Octave code which considers the problem of describing the typical value of the distance between a pair of points randomly selected from an isotropic standard normal distribution in M dimensions.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

normal01_multivariate_distance is available in a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

normal01_multivariate_distance_test

octave_distance, an Octave code which estimates the typical distance between a pair of points randomly selected from the surface or interior of a geometric object such as a circle, disk, sphere, cube.

Source Code:

• normal01_multivariate_distance_compare.m, compares observed and theoretical PDF's.
• normal01_multivariate_distance_histogram.m, displays a histogram from N samples of pairwise distances.
• normal01_multivariate_distance_plot.m, plots what is believed to be the theoretical PDF.
• normal01_multivariate_distance_stats.m, estimates the mean and variance of the pairwise distance, using sampling.
• r8mat_print.m, prints an R8MAT.
• r8mat_print_some.m, prints some of an R8MAT.