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Re: Get Distribution from Interpolated Function

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  • Subject: [mg128293] Re: Get Distribution from Interpolated Function
  • From: Murta <rodrigomurtax at gmail.com>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 02:49:47 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thursday, October 4, 2012 12:43:47 AM UTC-3, Tomas Garza wrote:
> I think the Histogram is working fine. The problem is with randonData, all of whose elements are less than 1.Note that dist is not a probability distribution, since in my example
> 
> In[3]:= NIntegrate[PDF[dist, x], {x, 0, 10}]
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> 
> 
> Out[3]= 13.6285
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> If you first normalize dist (i.e., divide dist by NIntegrate[PDF[dist, x], {x, 0, 10}]), then you'll get a histogram which more or less resembles the curve form.
> 
> --Tomas
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> 
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> > From: rodrigomurtax at gmail.com
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> > Subject: Get Distribution from Interpolated Function
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> > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
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> > Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 03:09:09 -0400
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> >
> 
> > Hi All
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> >
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> >     I'm trying to get a distribution from an interpolated function but with no success.
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> >
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> > (*Creating Dist from interpolation*)
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> > ff = Interpolation[Table[{i, 1 + RandomReal[1]}, {i, 0, 10, 1}], Method -> "Spline"];
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> > dist = ProbabilityDistribution[ff[x], {x, 0, 10}];
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> >
> 
> >  (*Plot Interpolation ok!*)
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> > Plot[ff[x], {x, 0, 10}]
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> >
> 
> > (*Plot Dist ok!*)
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> > Plot[Evaluate@PDF[dist, x], {x, 0, 10}]
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> >
> 
> > (*do not work as spected, the histogram don't have the curve format*)
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> > randonData = RandomVariate[dist, 100000];
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> > Histogram[randonData, {0.1}, "Probability",  PlotRange -> {{0, 10}, All}]
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> >
> 
> > tks in advance
> 
> > Murta
> 
> >

Bob tks.
It's just what I need



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