— Function File: [m, v] = raylstat (sigma)

Compute mean and variance of the Rayleigh distribution.

Arguments

• sigma is the parameter of the Rayleigh distribution. The elements of sigma must be positive.

Return values

• m is the mean of the Rayleigh distribution.
• v is the variance of the Rayleigh distribution.

Example

          sigma = 1:6;
          [m, v] = raylstat (sigma)

References

1. Wendy L. Martinez and Angel R. Martinez. Computational Statistics Handbook with MATLAB. Appendix E, pages 547-557, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2001.
2. Athanasios Papoulis. Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes. McGraw-Hill, New York, second edition, 1984.