Test normality for small populations
ksuchak1990 opened this issue · 2 comments
ksuchak1990 commented
Run StationSim_GCS
for small population sizes and test normality of state vectors
ksuchak1990 commented
Having run some instances of the EnKF for very small population sizes (2 agents and 5 agents) and ensemble sizes of 50, it doesn't look like state vectors are normally distributed. I have checked this by:
- Using histogram visualisations to look at the distribution of x and y coordinates of each agent in the population independent of each other, and
pingouin.multivariate_normality()
which implements the Henze-Zirkler test for multivariate normality.
Issues to raise with Jon:
- If the normality tests fail for such small population sizes, is there any chance that it will improve with larger population sizes? I don't think so.
- If the normality tests fail for the model in the absence of data assimilation, could this improve with data assimilation? Possibly?
ksuchak1990 commented
Will review this in the morning, but this may be a dead-end/may not require that much more investigation