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2005 Feb 03
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Displaying a distribution -- was: Combining two histograms
...t like a sharman can read a chicken's entrails, with a similar recourse to scientific principles. Interpreting Q-Q plots is more a visceral than an intellectual exercise. The uninitiated are often mystified by the process. Experience is the key here."
http://www.maths.murdoch.edu.au/units/statsnotes/samplestats/qqplot.html
Having said that I would suggest many people have difficulty understanding density plots, but think that they can understand histograms.
I am currently undergoing shaman training ;-) and find that my interpretation of the plots owes more to experience than it does to a s...
2011 Apr 30
4
QQ plot for normality testing
Hi all,
I am trying to test wheater the distribution of my samples is normal with QQ plot.
I have a values of water content in clays in around few hundred samples. Is the code :
qqnorm(w) #w being water content
qqline(w)
sufficient?
How do I know when I get the plots which distribution is normal and which is not?
Thanks, m
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