Re: [R] "normal probability plot" with a percentile scale?

About this list Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

From: Peter Dalgaard BSA (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk)
Date: Wed 01 May 2002 - 18:11:46 EST


Message-id: <x2sn5cjni5.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

Russell Senior <seniorr@aracnet.com> writes:

> I'd like to generate some plots like you'd see on the old "normal
> probability graph paper", like the first plot in:
>
> <http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/normprpl.htm>
>
> except the horizontal scale would have 1%, 5%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 95%,
> 99%, or similar quantiles, with associated tick/grid lines. [still
> hunting around for a good example...] something like these, but with
> the probability along the horizontal axis:

This'll be close:

x <- rnorm(100)
pp <- c(.01, .05, .25, .50, .75, .95,.99)
qq <- qnorm(pp)
qqnorm(x,axes=F)
axis(2)
axis(1,at=qq,labels=pp)
box()

For smaller samples, you may need to throw in an xlim=range(qq)
argument.

-- 
   O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Blegdamsvej 3  
  c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics     2200 Cph. N   
 (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen   Denmark      Ph: (+45) 35327918
~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk)             FAX: (+45) 35327907
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html
Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"
(in the "body", not the subject !)  To: r-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._


About this list Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Wed 16 Oct 2002 - 11:57:14 EST