Compute the probability that two functions are correlated at a given spherical harmonic degree for a given correlation coefficient.
prob
= SHConfidence (l
, corr
)
prob
: output, real*8
: Probability that two functions expressed in spherical coefficients with spectral correlation corr
are correlated at degree l
.
l
: input, integer
: The spherical harmonic degree.
corr
: input, real*8
: The correlation coefficient of the two data sets at degree l
.
SHConfidence
will calculate the probability (between 0 and 1) that two sets of spherical harmonic coefficients with spectral correlation corr
are linearly correlated at a given degree. This is calculated using equation A7 from Pauer et al. (2006).
Pauer, M, K. Fleming, and O. Cadek, Modeling the dynamic component of the geoid and topography of Venus, J. Geophys. Res., 111, E11012, doi:10.1029/2005JE002511, 2006.