Verify distribution uniformity/Chi-squared test
In this task, write a function to verify that a given distribution of values is uniform by using the test to see if the distribution has a likelihood of happening of at least the significance level (conventionally 5%). The function should return a boolean that is true if the distribution is one that a uniform distribution (with appropriate number of degrees of freedom) may be expected to produce.
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
More information about the distribution may be found at mathworld.
Ada
First, we specifay a simple package to compute the Chi-Square Distance from the uniform distribution: <lang Ada>package Chi_Square is
type Flt is digits 18; type Bins_Type is array(Positive range <>) of Natural; function Distance(Bins: Bins_Type) return Flt;
end Chi_Square;</lang>
Next, we implement that package:
<lang Ada>package body Chi_Square is
function Distance(Bins: Bins_Type) return Flt is Bad_Bins: Natural := 0; Sum: Natural := 0; Expected: Flt; Result: Flt; begin for I in Bins'Range loop if Bins(I) < 5 then Bad_Bins := Bad_Bins + 1; end if; Sum := Sum + Bins(I); end loop; if 5*Bad_Bins > Bins'Length then raise Program_Error with "too many (almost) empty bins"; end if; Expected := Flt(Sum) / Flt(Bins'Length); Result := 0.0; for I in Bins'Range loop Result := Result + ((Flt(Bins(I)) - Expected)**2) / Expected; end loop; return Result; end Distance;
end Chi_Square;</lang>
Finally, we actually implement the Chi-square test. We do not actually compute the Chi-square probability; rather we hardcode a table of values for 5% significance level, which has been picked from Wikipedia [1]: <lang Ada>with Ada.Text_IO, Ada.Command_Line, Chi_Square; use Ada.Text_IO;
procedure Test_Chi_Square is
package Ch2 renames Chi_Square; use Ch2; package FIO is new Float_IO(Flt); B: Bins_Type(1 .. Ada.Command_Line.Argument_Count); Bound_For_5_Per_Cent: constant array(Positive range <>) of Flt := ( 1 => 3.84, 2 => 5.99, 3 => 7.82, 4 => 9.49, 5 => 11.07, 6 => 12.59, 7 => 14.07, 8 => 15.51, 9 => 16.92, 10 => 18.31); -- picked from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-squared_distribution Dist: Flt;
begin
for I in B'Range loop B(I) := Natural'Value(Ada.Command_Line.Argument(I)); end loop; Dist := Distance(B); Put("Degrees of Freedom:" & Integer'Image(B'Length-1) & ", Distance: "); FIO.Put(Dist, Fore => 6, Aft => 2, Exp => 0); if Dist <= Bound_For_5_Per_Cent(B'Length-1) then Put_Line("; (apparently uniform)"); else Put_Line("; (deviates significantly from uniform)"); end if;
end;</lang>
- Output:
$ ./Test_Chi_Square 199809 200665 199607 200270 199649 Degrees of Freedom: 4, Distance: 4.15; (apparently uniform) $ ./Test_Chi_Square 522573 244456 139979 71531 21461 Degrees of Freedom: 4, Distance: 790063.28; (deviates significantly from uniform)
C
This first sections contains the functions required to compute the Chi-Squared probability. These are not needed if a library containing the necessary function is availabile (e.g. see Numerical Integration, Gamma function). <lang c>#include <stdlib.h>
- include <stdio.h>
- include <math.h>
- ifndef M_PI
- define M_PI 3.14159265358979323846
- endif
typedef double (* Ifctn)( double t); /* Numerical integration method */ double Simpson3_8( Ifctn f, double a, double b, int N) {
int j; double l1; double h = (b-a)/N; double h1 = h/3.0; double sum = f(a) + f(b);
for (j=3*N-1; j>0; j--) { l1 = (j%3)? 3.0 : 2.0; sum += l1*f(a+h1*j) ; } return h*sum/8.0;
}
- define A 12
double Gamma_Spouge( double z ) {
int k; static double cspace[A]; static double *coefs = NULL; double accum; double a = A;
if (!coefs) { double k1_factrl = 1.0; coefs = cspace; coefs[0] = sqrt(2.0*M_PI); for(k=1; k<A; k++) { coefs[k] = exp(a-k) * pow(a-k,k-0.5) / k1_factrl; k1_factrl *= -k; } }
accum = coefs[0]; for (k=1; k<A; k++) { accum += coefs[k]/(z+k); } accum *= exp(-(z+a)) * pow(z+a, z+0.5); return accum/z;
}
double aa1; double f0( double t) {
return pow(t, aa1)*exp(-t);
}
double GammaIncomplete_Q( double a, double x) {
double y, h = 1.5e-2; /* approximate integration step size */
/* this cuts off the tail of the integration to speed things up */ y = aa1 = a-1; while((f0(y) * (x-y) > 2.0e-8) && (y < x)) y += .4; if (y>x) y=x;
return 1.0 - Simpson3_8( &f0, 0, y, (int)(y/h))/Gamma_Spouge(a);
}</lang> This section contains the functions specific to the task. <lang c>double chi2UniformDistance( double *ds, int dslen) {
double expected = 0.0; double sum = 0.0; int k;
for (k=0; k<dslen; k++) expected += ds[k]; expected /= k;
for (k=0; k<dslen; k++) { double x = ds[k] - expected; sum += x*x; } return sum/expected;
}
double chi2Probability( int dof, double distance) {
return GammaIncomplete_Q( 0.5*dof, 0.5*distance);
}
int chiIsUniform( double *dset, int dslen, double significance) {
int dof = dslen -1; double dist = chi2UniformDistance( dset, dslen); return chi2Probability( dof, dist ) > significance;
}</lang> Testing <lang c>int main(int argc, char **argv) {
double dset1[] = { 199809., 200665., 199607., 200270., 199649. }; double dset2[] = { 522573., 244456., 139979., 71531., 21461. }; double *dsets[] = { dset1, dset2 }; int dslens[] = { 5, 5 }; int k, l; double dist, prob; int dof;
for (k=0; k<2; k++) { printf("Dataset: [ "); for(l=0;l<dslens[k]; l++) printf("%.0f, ", dsets[k][l]); printf("]\n"); dist = chi2UniformDistance(dsets[k], dslens[k]); dof = dslens[k]-1; printf("dof: %d distance: %.4f", dof, dist); prob = chi2Probability( dof, dist ); printf(" probability: %.6f", prob); printf(" uniform? %s\n", chiIsUniform(dsets[k], dslens[k], 0.05)? "Yes":"No"); } return 0;
}</lang>
D
<lang d>import std.stdio, std.algorithm, std.mathspecial;
real x2Dist(T)(in T[] data) pure nothrow {
immutable avg = reduce!q{a + b}(0.0L, data) / data.length; immutable sqs = reduce!((a, b) => a + (b - avg) ^^ 2)(0.0L, data); return sqs / avg;
}
real x2Prob(in real dof, in real distance) /*pure nothrow*/ {
return gammaIncompleteCompl(dof / 2, distance / 2);
}
bool x2IsUniform(T)(in T[] data, in real significance=0.05L) /*pure nothrow*/ {
return x2Prob(data.length - 1.0L, x2Dist(data)) > significance;
}
void main() {
immutable dataSets = [[199809, 200665, 199607, 200270, 199649], [522573, 244456, 139979, 71531, 21461]]; writefln(" %4s %12s %12s %8s %s", "dof", "distance", "probability", "Uniform?", "dataset"); foreach (immutable ds; dataSets) { immutable dof = ds.length - 1; immutable dist = ds.x2Dist; immutable prob = x2Prob(dof, dist); writefln("%4d %12.3f %12.8f %5s %6s", dof, dist, prob, ds.x2IsUniform ? "YES" : "NO", ds); }
}</lang>
- Output:
dof distance probability Uniform? dataset 4 4.146 0.38657083 YES [199809, 200665, 199607, 200270, 199649] 4 790063.276 0.00000000 NO [522573, 244456, 139979, 71531, 21461]
Fortran
Instead of implementing the incomplete gamma function by ourselves, we bind to GNU Scientific Library; so we need a module to interface to the function we need (gsl_sf_gamma_inc)
<lang fortran>module GSLMiniBind
implicit none
interface real(c_double) function gsl_sf_gamma_inc(a, x) bind(C) use iso_c_binding real(c_double), value, intent(in) :: a, x end function gsl_sf_gamma_inc end interface
end module GSLMiniBind</lang>
Now we're ready to complete the task.
<lang fortran>program ChiTest
use GSLMiniBind use iso_c_binding implicit none
real, dimension(5) :: dset1 = (/ 199809., 200665., 199607., 200270., 199649. /) real, dimension(5) :: dset2 = (/ 522573., 244456., 139979., 71531., 21461. /)
real :: dist, prob integer :: dof
print *, "Dataset 1:" print *, dset1 dist = chi2UniformDistance(dset1) dof = size(dset1) - 1 write(*, '(A,I4,A,F12.4)') 'dof: ', dof, ' distance: ', dist prob = chi2Probability(dof, dist) write(*, '(A,F9.6)') 'probability: ', prob write(*, '(A,L)') 'uniform? ', chiIsUniform(dset1, 0.05)
! Lazy copy/past :| print *, "Dataset 2:" print *, dset2 dist = chi2UniformDistance(dset2) dof = size(dset2) - 1 write(*, '(A,I4,A,F12.4)') 'dof: ', dof, ' distance: ', dist prob = chi2Probability(dof, dist) write(*, '(A,F9.6)') 'probability: ', prob write(*, '(A,L)') 'uniform? ', chiIsUniform(dset2, 0.05)
contains
function chi2Probability(dof, distance)
real :: chi2Probability integer, intent(in) :: dof real, intent(in) :: distance
! in order to make this work, we need linking with GSL library chi2Probability = gsl_sf_gamma_inc(real(0.5*dof, c_double), real(0.5*distance, c_double))
end function chi2Probability
function chiIsUniform(dset, significance)
logical :: chiIsUniform real, dimension(:), intent(in) :: dset real, intent(in) :: significance
integer :: dof real :: dist
dof = size(dset) - 1 dist = chi2UniformDistance(dset) chiIsUniform = chi2Probability(dof, dist) > significance
end function chiIsUniform
function chi2UniformDistance(ds)
real :: chi2UniformDistance real, dimension(:), intent(in) :: ds
real :: expected, summa = 0.0
expected = sum(ds) / size(ds) summa = sum( (ds - expected) ** 2 ) chi2UniformDistance = summa / expected
end function chi2UniformDistance
end program ChiTest</lang>
Go
Go has a nice gamma function in the library. Otherwise, it's mostly a port from C. Note, this implementation of the incomplete gamma function works for these two test cases, but, I believe, has serious limitations. See talk page. <lang go>package main
import (
"fmt" "math"
)
type ifctn func(float64) float64
func simpson38(f ifctn, a, b float64, n int) float64 {
h := (b - a) / float64(n) h1 := h / 3 sum := f(a) + f(b) for j := 3*n - 1; j > 0; j-- { if j%3 == 0 { sum += 2 * f(a+h1*float64(j)) } else { sum += 3 * f(a+h1*float64(j)) } } return h * sum / 8
}
func gammaIncQ(a, x float64) float64 {
aa1 := a - 1 var f ifctn = func(t float64) float64 { return math.Pow(t, aa1) * math.Exp(-t) } y := aa1 h := 1.5e-2 for f(y)*(x-y) > 2e-8 && y < x { y += .4 } if y > x { y = x } return 1 - simpson38(f, 0, y, int(y/h/math.Gamma(a)))
}
func chi2ud(ds []int) float64 {
var sum, expected float64 for _, d := range ds { expected += float64(d) } expected /= float64(len(ds)) for _, d := range ds { x := float64(d) - expected sum += x * x } return sum / expected
}
func chi2p(dof int, distance float64) float64 {
return gammaIncQ(.5*float64(dof), .5*distance)
}
const sigLevel = .05
func main() {
for _, dset := range [][]int{ {199809, 200665, 199607, 200270, 199649}, {522573, 244456, 139979, 71531, 21461}, } { utest(dset) }
}
func utest(dset []int) {
fmt.Println("Uniform distribution test") var sum int for _, c := range dset { sum += c } fmt.Println(" dataset:", dset) fmt.Println(" samples: ", sum) fmt.Println(" categories: ", len(dset)) dof := len(dset) - 1 fmt.Println(" degrees of freedom: ", dof)
dist := chi2ud(dset) fmt.Println(" chi square test statistic: ", dist) p := chi2p(dof, dist) fmt.Println(" p-value of test statistic: ", p)
sig := p < sigLevel fmt.Printf(" significant at %2.0f%% level? %t\n", sigLevel*100, sig) fmt.Println(" uniform? ", !sig, "\n")
}</lang> Output:
Uniform distribution test dataset: [199809 200665 199607 200270 199649] samples: 1000000 categories: 5 degrees of freedom: 4 chi square test statistic: 4.14628 p-value of test statistic: 0.3865708330827673 significant at 5% level? false uniform? true Uniform distribution test dataset: [522573 244456 139979 71531 21461] samples: 1000000 categories: 5 degrees of freedom: 4 chi square test statistic: 790063.27594 p-value of test statistic: 2.3528290427066167e-11 significant at 5% level? true uniform? false
J
Solution (Tacit): <lang j>require 'stats/base'
countCats=: #@~. NB. counts the number of unique items getExpected=: #@] % [ NB. divides no of items by category count getObserved=: #/.~@] NB. counts frequency for each category calcX2=: [: +/ *:@(getObserved - getExpected) % getExpected NB. calculates test statistic calcDf=: <:@[ NB. calculates degrees of freedom for uniform distribution
NB.*isUniform v Tests (5%) whether y is uniformly distributed NB. result is: boolean describing if distribution y is uniform NB. y is: distribution to test NB. x is: optionally specify number of categories possible isUniform=: (countCats $: ]) : (0.95 > calcDf chisqcdf :: 1: calcX2)</lang>
Solution (Explicit): <lang j>require 'stats/base'
NB.*isUniformX v Tests (5%) whether y is uniformly distributed NB. result is: boolean describing if distribution y is uniform NB. y is: distribution to test NB. x is: optionally specify number of categories possible isUniformX=: verb define
(#~. y) isUniformX y
signif=. 0.95 NB. set significance level expected=. (#y) % x NB. number of items divided by the category count observed=. #/.~ y NB. frequency count for each category X2=. +/ (*: observed - expected) % expected NB. the test statistic degfreedom=. <: x NB. degrees of freedom signif > degfreedom chisqcdf :: 1: X2
)</lang>
Example Usage: <lang j> FairDistrib=: 1e6 ?@$ 5
UnfairDistrib=: (9.5e5 ?@$ 5) , (5e4 ?@$ 4) isUniformX FairDistrib
1
isUniformX UnfairDistrib
0
isUniform 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 NB. uniform if only 2 categories possible
1
4 isUniform 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 NB. not uniform if 4 categories possible
0</lang>
Mathematica
This code explicity assumes a discrete uniform distribution since the chi square test is a poor test choice for continuous distributions and requires Mathematica version 2 or later <lang Mathematica>discreteUniformDistributionQ[data_, {min_Integer, max_Integer}, confLevel_: .05] := If[$VersionNumber >= 8,
confLevel <= PearsonChiSquareTest[data, DiscreteUniformDistribution[{min, max}]], Block[{v, k = max - min, n = Length@data}, v = (k + 1) (Plus @@ (((Length /@ Split[Sort@data]))^2))/n - n; GammaRegularized[k/2, 0, v/2] <= 1 - confLevel]]
discreteUniformDistributionQ[data_] :=discreteUniformDistributionQ[data, data[[Ordering[data][[{1, -1}]]]]]</lang> code used to create test data requires Mathematica version 6 or later <lang Mathematica>uniformData = RandomInteger[10, 100]; nonUniformData = Total@RandomInteger[10, {5, 100}];</lang> <lang Mathematica>{discreteUniformDistributionQ[uniformData],discreteUniformDistributionQ[nonUniformData]}</lang>
- Output:
{True,False}
OCaml
This code needs to be compiled with library gsl.cma.
<lang ocaml>let sqr x = x *. x
let chi2UniformDistance distrib =
let count, len = Array.fold_left (fun (s, c) e -> s + e, succ c) (0, 0) distrib in let expected = float count /. float len in let distance = Array.fold_left (fun s e -> s +. sqr (float e -. expected) /. expected ) 0. distrib in let dof = float (pred len) in dof, distance
let chi2Proba dof distance =
Gsl_sf.gamma_inc_Q (0.5 *. dof) (0.5 *. distance)
let chi2IsUniform distrib significance =
let dof, distance = chi2UniformDistance distrib in let likelihoodOfRandom = chi2Proba dof distance in likelihoodOfRandom > significance
let _ =
List.iter (fun distrib -> let dof, distance = chi2UniformDistance distrib in Printf.printf "distribution "; Array.iter (Printf.printf "\t%d") distrib; Printf.printf "\tdistance %g" distance; Printf.printf "\t[%g > 0.05]" (chi2Proba dof distance); if chi2IsUniform distrib 0.05 then Printf.printf " fair\n" else Printf.printf " unfair\n" ) [ [| 199809; 200665; 199607; 200270; 199649 |]; [| 522573; 244456; 139979; 71531; 21461 |] ]</lang>
Output
distribution 199809 200665 199607 200270 199649 distance 4.14628 [0.386571 > 0.05] fair distribution 522573 244456 139979 71531 21461 distance 790063 [0 > 0.05] unfair
PARI/GP
The solution is very easy in GP since PARI includes a good incomplete gamma implementation; the sum function is also useful for clarity. Most of the code is just for displaying results.
The sample data for the test was taken from Go. <lang parigp>cumChi2(chi2,dof)={ my(g=gamma(dof/2)); incgam(dof/2,chi2/2,g)/g }; test(v,alpha=.05)={ my(chi2,p,s=sum(i=1,#v,v[i]),ave=s/#v); print("chi^2 statistic: ",chi2=sum(i=1,#v,(v[i]-ave)^2)/ave); print("p-value: ",p=cumChi2(chi2,#v-1)); if(p<alpha, print("Significant at the alpha = "alpha" level: not uniform"); , print("Not significant at the alpha = "alpha" level: uniform"); ) };
test([199809, 200665, 199607, 200270, 199649]) test([522573, 244456, 139979, 71531, 21461])</lang>
Perl 6
For the incomplete gamma function we use a series expansion related to Kummer's confluent hypergeometric function (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incomplete_gamma_function#Evaluation_formulae). The gamma function is calculated in closed form, as we only need its value at integers and half integers.
<lang perl6>sub incomplete-γ-series($s, $z) {
my \numers = $z X** 1..*; my \denoms = [\*] $s X+ 1..*; my $M = 1 + [+] (numers Z/ denoms) ... * < 1e-6; $z**$s / $s * exp(-$z) * $M;
}
sub postfix:<!>(Int $n) { [*] 2..$n }
sub Γ-of-half(Int $n where * > 0) {
($n %% 2) ?? (($_-1)! given $n div 2) !! ((2*$_)! / (4**$_ * $_!) * sqrt(pi) given ($n-1) div 2);
}
- degrees of freedom constrained due to numerical limitations
sub chi-squared-cdf(Int $k where 1..200, $x where * >= 0) {
my $f = $k < 20 ?? 20 !! 10; given $x { when 0 { 0.0 } when * < $k + $f*sqrt($k) { incomplete-γ-series($k/2, $x/2) / Γ-of-half($k) } default { 1.0 } }
}
sub chi-squared-test(@bins, :$significance = 0.05) {
my $n = +@bins; my $N = [+] @bins; my $expected = $N / $n; my $chi-squared = [+] @bins.map: { ($^bin - $expected)**2 / $expected } my $p-value = 1 - chi-squared-cdf($n-1, $chi-squared); return (:$chi-squared, :$p-value, :uniform($p-value > $significance));
}
for [< 199809 200665 199607 200270 199649 >],
[< 522573 244456 139979 71531 21461 >] -> $dataset
{
my %t = chi-squared-test($dataset); say 'data: ', $dataset; say "χ² = {%t<chi-squared>}, p-value = {%t<p-value>.fmt('%.4f')}, uniform = {%t<uniform>}";
}</lang>
- Output:
data: 199809 200665 199607 200270 199649 χ² = 4.14628, p-value = 0.3866, uniform = True data: 522573 244456 139979 71531 21461 χ² = 790063.27594, p-value = 0.0000, uniform = False
Python
Implements the Chi Square Probability function with an integration. I'm sure there are better ways to do this. Compare to OCaml implementation. <lang python>import math import random
def GammaInc_Q( a, x):
a1 = a-1 a2 = a-2 def f0( t ): return t**a1*math.exp(-t)
def df0(t): return (a1-t)*t**a2*math.exp(-t) y = a1 while f0(y)*(x-y) >2.0e-8 and y < x: y += .3 if y > x: y = x
h = 3.0e-4 n = int(y/h) h = y/n hh = 0.5*h gamax = h * sum( f0(t)+hh*df0(t) for t in ( h*j for j in xrange(n-1, -1, -1)))
return gamax/gamma_spounge(a)
c = None def gamma_spounge( z):
global c a = 12
if c is None: k1_factrl = 1.0 c = [] c.append(math.sqrt(2.0*math.pi)) for k in range(1,a): c.append( math.exp(a-k) * (a-k)**(k-0.5) / k1_factrl ) k1_factrl *= -k accm = c[0] for k in range(1,a): accm += c[k] / (z+k) accm *= math.exp( -(z+a)) * (z+a)**(z+0.5) return accm/z;
def chi2UniformDistance( dataSet ):
expected = sum(dataSet)*1.0/len(dataSet) cntrd = (d-expected for d in dataSet) return sum(x*x for x in cntrd)/expected
def chi2Probability(dof, distance):
return 1.0 - GammaInc_Q( 0.5*dof, 0.5*distance)
def chi2IsUniform(dataSet, significance):
dof = len(dataSet)-1 dist = chi2UniformDistance(dataSet) return chi2Probability( dof, dist ) > significance
dset1 = [ 199809, 200665, 199607, 200270, 199649 ] dset2 = [ 522573, 244456, 139979, 71531, 21461 ]
for ds in (dset1, dset2):
print "Data set:", ds dof = len(ds)-1 distance =chi2UniformDistance(ds) print "dof: %d distance: %.4f" % (dof, distance), prob = chi2Probability( dof, distance) print "probability: %.4f"%prob, print "uniform? ", "Yes"if chi2IsUniform(ds,0.05) else "No"</lang>
Output:
Data set: [199809, 200665, 199607, 200270, 199649] dof: 4 distance: 4.146280 probability: 0.3866 uniform? Yes Data set: [522573, 244456, 139979, 71531, 21461] dof: 4 distance: 790063.275940 probability: 0.0000 uniform? No
R
R being a statistical computating language, the chi-squared test is built in with the function "chisq.test" <lang tcl> dset1=c(199809,200665,199607,200270,199649) dset2=c(522573,244456,139979,71531,21461)
chi2IsUniform<-function(dataset,significance=0.05){
chi2IsUniform=(chisq.test(dataset)$p.value>significance)
}
for (ds in list(dset1,dset2)){
print(c("Data set:",ds)) print(chisq.test(ds)) print(paste("uniform?",chi2IsUniform(ds)))
} </lang>
Output:
[1] "Data set:" "199809" "200665" "199607" "200270" "199649" Chi-squared test for given probabilities data: ds X-squared = 4.1463, df = 4, p-value = 0.3866 [1] "uniform? TRUE" [1] "Data set:" "522573" "244456" "139979" "71531" "21461" Chi-squared test for given probabilities data: ds X-squared = 790063.3, df = 4, p-value < 2.2e-16 [1] "uniform? FALSE"
Racket
<lang racket>
- lang racket
(require
racket/flonum (planet williams/science:4:5/science) (only-in (planet williams/science/unsafe-ops-utils) real->float))
- (chi^2-goodness-of-fit-test observed expected df)
- Given
- observed, a sequence of observed frequencies
- expected, a sequence of expected frequencies
- df, the degrees of freedom
- Result
- P-value = 1-chi^2cdf(X^2,df) , the p-value
(define (chi^2-goodness-of-fit-test observed expected df)
(define X^2 (for/sum ([o observed] [e expected]) (/ (sqr (- o e)) e))) (- 1.0 (chi-squared-cdf X^2 df)))
(define (is-uniform? rand n α)
; Use significance level α to test whether ; n small random numbers generated by rand ; have a uniform distribution.
; Observed values: (define o (make-vector 10 0)) ; generate n random integers from 0 to 9. (for ([_ (+ n 1)]) (define r (rand 10)) (vector-set! o r (+ (vector-ref o r) 1))) ; Expected values: (define ex (make-vector 10 (/ n 10)))
; Calculate the P-value: (define P (chi^2-goodness-of-fit-test o ex (- n 1))) ; If the P-value is larger than α we accept the ; hypothesis that the numbers are distributed uniformly. (> P α))
- Test whether the builtin generator is uniform
(is-uniform? random 1000 0.05)
- Test whether the constant generator fails
(is-uniform? (λ(_) 5) 1000 0.05) </lang> Output: <lang racket>
- t
- f
</lang>
Tcl
<lang tcl>package require Tcl 8.5 package require math::statistics
proc isUniform {distribution {significance 0.05}} {
set count [tcl::mathop::+ {*}[dict values $distribution]] set expected [expr {double($count) / [dict size $distribution]}] set X2 0.0 foreach value [dict values $distribution] {
set X2 [expr {$X2 + ($value - $expected)**2 / $expected}]
} set degreesOfFreedom [expr {[dict size $distribution] - 1}] set likelihoodOfRandom [::math::statistics::incompleteGamma \
[expr {$degreesOfFreedom / 2.0}] [expr {$X2 / 2.0}]]
expr {$likelihoodOfRandom > $significance}
}</lang> Testing: <lang tcl>proc makeDistribution {operation {count 1000000}} {
for {set i 0} {$i<$count} {incr i} {incr distribution([uplevel 1 $operation])} return [array get distribution]
}
set distFair [makeDistribution {expr int(rand()*5)}] puts "distribution \"$distFair\" assessed as [expr [isUniform $distFair]?{fair}:{unfair}]" set distUnfair [makeDistribution {expr int(rand()*rand()*5)}] puts "distribution \"$distUnfair\" assessed as [expr [isUniform $distUnfair]?{fair}:{unfair}]"</lang> Output:
distribution "0 199809 4 199649 1 200665 2 199607 3 200270" assessed as fair distribution "4 21461 0 522573 1 244456 2 139979 3 71531" assessed as unfair