Multivariate Gaussian user defined function

Hi

I want to create a hard coded multivariate gaussian function. I know there is an already existing matab function but I need to create another function for my project.

The Multivariate Gaussian Distribution equation given is as follows:

The function has to give a final plot of the gaussian bump using the imagesc in 2D.

%% Some code that I have already tried

function [z] = mygaussian2Dplot(X,mu,sigma)
e = 2.17;
L = X(1);
Y = X(2);
sigma_l = sigma(1).*L;
sigma_y = sigma(2).*Y;
z = 1/2.*sigma_l.*sigma_y.*pi*e.*(-L.^2/2.*sigma_l.^2 - Y.^2/2.*sigma_y.^2);
figure
imagesc(z)
title('Multivariate Gaussian Distribution')
xlabel('x')
ylabel('f(x)')
end

[the cyclist]

Note that e is closer to 2.71, not 2.17.

You could also have used exp(1) there, for an even closer approximation.

Your code simply multiplied by e in your expression, rather than raising e to the desired power in the gaussian formula. That is another thing I fixed in my solution.

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

I made a few changes:

• Define L as the first column of X, not just first value
• Ditto Y for second column
• Changed a couple matrix operations to elementwise operations, in the definition of z

L = X(:,1);
Y = X(:,2);
sigma_l = sigma(1).*L;
sigma_y = sigma(2).*Y;
z = 1/2.*sigma_l.*sigma_y.*pi.*exp(-L.^2./2.*sigma_l.^2 - Y.^2./2.*sigma_y.^2);
figure
imagesc(z)
title('Multivariate Gaussian Distribution')
xlabel('x')
ylabel('f(x)')

[BBB]

Thank you for your response. Somehow my code with the changes incorporated as suggested by you, is still not giving me the multivariate gaussian distribution.

But thank you very much for trying.

[the cyclist]

L = X(:,1);
Y = X(:,2);
sigma_l = sigma(1).*L;
sigma_y = sigma(2).*Y;

[LL,YY] = ndgrid(L,Y);

z = 1/2.*sigma_l.*sigma_y.*pi.*exp(-LL.^2./2.*sigma_l.^2 - YY.^2./2.*sigma_y.^2);

[BBB]

Hi

Thank you so much! It works well :)

Really appreciate it!