public void BivariatePolynomialRegression()
        {
            // do a set of polynomial regression fits
            // make sure not only that the fit parameters are what they should be, but that their variances/covariances are as claimed

            Random rng = new Random(271828);

            // define logistic parameters
            double[] a = new double[] { 0.0, -1.0, 2.0, -3.0 };

            // keep track of sample of returned a and b fit parameters
            MultivariateSample A = new MultivariateSample(a.Length);

            // also keep track of returned covariance estimates
            // since these vary slightly from fit to fit, we will average them
            SymmetricMatrix C = new SymmetricMatrix(a.Length);

            // also keep track of test statistics
            Sample F = new Sample();

            // do 100 fits
            for (int k = 0; k < 100; k++) {

                // we should be able to draw x's from any distribution; noise should be drawn from a normal distribution
                Distribution xd = new CauchyDistribution();
                Distribution nd = new NormalDistribution(0.0, 4.0);

                // generate a synthetic data set
                BivariateSample s = new BivariateSample();
                for (int j = 0; j < 20; j++) {
                    double x = xd.GetRandomValue(rng);
                    double y = nd.GetRandomValue(rng);
                    for (int i = 0; i < a.Length; i++) {
                        y += a[i] * MoreMath.Pow(x, i);
                    }
                    s.Add(x, y);
                }

                // do the regression
                FitResult r = s.PolynomialRegression(a.Length - 1);

                ColumnVector ps = r.Parameters;
                //Console.WriteLine("{0} {1} {2}", ps[0], ps[1], ps[2]);

                // record best fit parameters
                A.Add(ps);

                // record estimated covariances
                C += r.CovarianceMatrix;

                // record the fit statistic
                F.Add(r.GoodnessOfFit.Statistic);
                //Console.WriteLine("F={0}", r.GoodnessOfFit.Statistic);

            }

            C = (1.0 / A.Count) * C; // allow matrix division by real numbers

            // check that mean parameter estimates are what they should be: the underlying population parameters
            for (int i = 0; i < A.Dimension; i++) {
                Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", A.Column(i).PopulationMean, a[i]);
                Assert.IsTrue(A.Column(i).PopulationMean.ConfidenceInterval(0.95).ClosedContains(a[i]));
            }

            // check that parameter covarainces are what they should be: the reported covariance estimates
            for (int i = 0; i < A.Dimension; i++) {
                for (int j = i; j < A.Dimension; j++) {
                    Console.WriteLine("{0} {1} {2} {3}", i, j, C[i, j], A.TwoColumns(i, j).PopulationCovariance);
                    Assert.IsTrue(A.TwoColumns(i, j).PopulationCovariance.ConfidenceInterval(0.95).ClosedContains(C[i, j]));
                }
            }

            // check that F is distributed as it should be
            //Console.WriteLine(fs.KolmogorovSmirnovTest(new FisherDistribution(2, 48)).LeftProbability);
        }
        public void SpearmanNullDistributionTest()
        {
            // pick independent distributions for x and y, which needn't be normal and needn't be related
            Distribution xDistrubtion = new UniformDistribution();
            Distribution yDistribution = new CauchyDistribution();
            Random rng = new Random(1);

            // generate bivariate samples of various sizes
            foreach (int n in TestUtilities.GenerateIntegerValues(4, 64, 8)) {

                Sample testStatistics = new Sample();
                Distribution testDistribution = null;

                for (int i = 0; i < 128; i++) {

                    BivariateSample sample = new BivariateSample();
                    for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) {
                        sample.Add(xDistrubtion.GetRandomValue(rng), yDistribution.GetRandomValue(rng));
                    }

                    TestResult result = sample.SpearmanRhoTest();
                    testStatistics.Add(result.Statistic);
                    testDistribution = result.Distribution;
                }

                TestResult r2 = testStatistics.KuiperTest(testDistribution);
                Console.WriteLine("n={0} P={1}", n, r2.LeftProbability);
                Assert.IsTrue(r2.RightProbability > 0.05);

                Assert.IsTrue(testStatistics.PopulationMean.ConfidenceInterval(0.99).ClosedContains(testDistribution.Mean));
                Assert.IsTrue(testStatistics.PopulationVariance.ConfidenceInterval(0.99).ClosedContains(testDistribution.Variance));

            }
        }