Normalize distributions by RMS value

[tdbjacobs]

I'm not sure how to address this, but height and curvature distributions are useless when many different scales are included. See screenshot.

This isn't a programming problem - it's a visualization problem. Should we maybe normalize the x axis somehow, like we did in the SDRP paper?

[mcrot]

Would automatically zooming into x make these graphs more useful?
Or providing a choice of predefined zoom parameters which put certain details of specific measurements or of the average into focus while neglecting details from other measurements?

[tdbjacobs]

Maybe, but I’m not sure zooming helps because the distributions are on widely different scales. So inherently, even if you can see one clearly, the others may still look like sticks.

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[pastewka]

We could normalize those distribution by the rms value. This way one would be able to see deviations from Gaussianity but of course the absolute scale would be lost.

[tdbjacobs]

I think that is a good solution. At present, there is zero value to these plots for data with multiple scales represented (just looks like a spike). If we normalize, they will at least show Gaussinity/non-Gaussinity. We should think about somehow saving the RMS value so that a user can restore them to absolute values if they wish.

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