### Function Reference: `raylfit`

statistics: sigmaA = raylfit (x)
statistics: [sigmaA, sigmaci] = raylfit (x)
statistics: [sigmaA, sigmaci] = raylfit (x, alpha)
statistics: [sigmaA, sigmaci] = raylfit (x, alpha, censor)
statistics: [sigmaA, sigmaci] = raylfit (x, alpha, censor, freq)

Estimate parameter and confidence intervals for the Rayleigh distribution.

`sigmaA = raylfit (x)` returns the maximum likelihood estimate of the rate parameter, lambda, of the Rayleigh distribution given the data in x. x must be a vector of non-negative values.

`[sigmaA, sigmaci] = raylfit (x)` returns the 95% confidence intervals for the parameter estimate.

`[sigmaA, sigmaci] = raylfit (x, alpha)` also returns the `100 * (1 - alpha)` percent confidence intervals of the estimated parameter. By default, the optional argument alpha is 0.05 corresponding to 95% confidence intervals. Pass in `[]` for alpha to use the default values.

`[…] = raylfit (x, alpha, censor)` accepts a boolean vector, censor, of the same size as x with `1`s for observations that are right-censored and `0`s for observations that are observed exactly. By default, or if left empty, `censor = zeros (size (x))`.

`[…] = raylfit (x, alpha, censor, freq)` accepts a frequency vector or matrix, freq, of the same size as x. freq typically contains integer frequencies for the corresponding elements in x. freq cannot contain negative values.

Further information about the Rayleigh distribution can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_distribution

See also: raylcdf, raylinv, raylpdf, raylrnd, rayllike, raylstat

Source Code: raylfit

### Example: 1

     ## Sample 3 populations from 3 different Rayleigh distibutions
     rand ("seed", 2);    # for reproducibility
     r1 = raylrnd (1, 1000, 1);
     rand ("seed", 2);    # for reproducibility
     r2 = raylrnd (2, 1000, 1);
     rand ("seed", 3);    # for reproducibility
     r3 = raylrnd (4, 1000, 1);
     r = [r1, r2, r3];

     ## Plot them normalized and fix their colors
     hist (r, [0.5:0.5:10.5], 2);
     h = findobj (gca, "Type", "patch");
     set (h(1), "facecolor", "c");
     set (h(2), "facecolor", "g");
     set (h(3), "facecolor", "r");
     hold on

     ## Estimate their lambda parameter
     sigmaA = raylfit (r(:,1));
     sigmaB = raylfit (r(:,2));
     sigmaC = raylfit (r(:,3));

     ## Plot their estimated PDFs
     x = [0:0.1:10];
     y = raylpdf (x, sigmaA);
     plot (x, y, "-pr");
     y = raylpdf (x, sigmaB);
     plot (x, y, "-sg");
     y = raylpdf (x, sigmaC);
     plot (x, y, "-^c");
     xlim ([0, 10])
     ylim ([0, 0.7])
     legend ({"Normalized HIST of sample 1 with σ=1", ...
              "Normalized HIST of sample 2 with σ=2", ...
              "Normalized HIST of sample 3 with σ=4", ...
              sprintf("PDF for sample 1 with estimated σ=%0.2f", ...
                      sigmaA), ...
              sprintf("PDF for sample 2 with estimated σ=%0.2f", ...
                      sigmaB), ...
              sprintf("PDF for sample 3 with estimated σ=%0.2f", ...
                      sigmaC)})
     title ("Three population samples from different Rayleigh distibutions")
     hold off