text: The misorientation distribution (MD) is analogous to the ODF used in characterizing texture.  The MD describes the probability of the misorientation between any two grains falling into a range  around a given misorientation .  While similar to a probability density, the MD is not mathematically the same due to the normalization.  The intensity in an MD is given as "multiples of random density" (MRD) with respect to the distribution expected in a material with uniformly distributed misorientations.  The MD can be calculated by either series expansion, typically using generalized spherical harmonics, or by a discrete binning scheme, where each data point is assigned to a bin and accumulated.