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relu - calculate the relative uncertainty statistic (ERP statistics)

Synopsis

relu [ -s ] base maxlag

Description

relu calculates the relative uncertainty statistic. The user specifies maxlag, the maximum desired lag, and the program will calculate the U value for that lag and all smaller lags. The user must also specify the base of the data. The data are expected to be single digit integers between 0 and base-1, and it is assumed that base equals the number of possible values (e.g. if there were two possible values, they would be coded as 0 and 1, and the base would be 2). The data are read from the standard input, and don’t have to be in any special kind of format. The individual data can be separated by any non-numeric characters (usually spaces, tabs, or newlines), but they don’t need to be separated by anything at all. It is therefore possible to have data that look like this:


01100100101001111101
10010001110100110101010
101             Non-numeric characters
11              like these are ignored!!!!
101011
001010101111010011011001011000110101111001010001

The -s option can be used to produce a shorter output that is appropriate for building files filled with U values. For example,


 relu -s 2 10 < datafile >> outputfile

would be appropriate for data in base 2, with 10 different lags. The data would be read from a file named datafile and the output would be appended to the end of a file named outputfile.

See Also

chisquar(1) , freqdist(1) , mean(1) , median(1) , mnsdse(1) , zscore(1)

Author

Steve Luck


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