This program returns the normal distribution of data from a file. It will calculate: 1) A histogram of occurances, using a user-specified number of bins. 2) The mean and standard deviation of all data. 3) The most probable value (highest occupied bin of histogram) 4) An gaussian fit of the histogram (with the -g option) 5) A polynomial fit of the histogram, using a user-specified number of terms (-p option)

Before you install, ensure you have the required dependencies on your machine: 1) Boost libraries. 2) GNU Scientific Library You will need to edit the Makefile to point to these libraries, by changing the variable names BOOST_LIB, BOOST_INC and GSL_LIB, GSL_INC

Install: Open Terminal. Type "tar xvfz /path/to/tiltAngle/directory" and hit Enter. Type "cd tiltAngle" and hit Enter. Type "make" and hit Enter. Let me know if any errors appear.

It has only been tested on the GNU g++ compiler.

Included is a Makefile for easy installation. To check if you have "make", type "which make" on the command line. If a path to a file called "make" appears, you have it!

Type "./tiltAngle --help" to display command line options and information.

Example invocation: ./tiltAngle -f nitrileangles.dat -o angle_distribution.txt -n 100 ## This creates a distribution of data from 'nitrileangles.dat', ## and writes a histogram of the data to 'angle_distribution.txt'. ## The histogram is generated with 100 bins, evenly spaced between ## the minimum and maximum value found in 'nitrileangles.dat'.

Under the test directory, there is a Mathematica notebook that will generate random data. This can be used for testing purposes.