Rayleigh test

Rayleigh test can refer to:

• a test for periodicity in irregularly sampled data,^[1]
• a derivation of the above to test for non-uniformity (as unimodal clustering) of a set of points on a circle (e.g. compass directions),^[2] sometimes known as the Rayleigh z test.^[3]

See also

• Circular distribution
• Directional statistics
• Kuiper's test
• Rayleigh distribution
• Watson test
• Rayleigh plot