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- ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Kurt Hornik
- ##
- ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ## any later version.
- ##
- ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
- ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## usage: [q, s] = qqplot (x [, dist [, params]])
- ##
- ## Performs a QQ-plot (quantile plot).
- ##
- ## If F is the CDF of the distribution `dist' with parameters `params'
- ## and G its inverse, and x a sample vector of length n, the QQ-plot
- ## graphs ordinate s(i) = i-th largest element of x versus abscissa q(i)
- ## = G((i - 0.5)/n).
- ##
- ## If the sample comes from F except for a transformation of location
- ## and scale, the pairs will approximately follow a straight line.
- ##
- ## The default for `dist' is the standard normal distribution. The
- ## optional argument `params' contains a list of parameters of
- ## `dist'. E.g., for a quantile plot of the uniform distribution on
- ## [2,4] and x, use `qqplot (x, "uniform", 2, 4)'.
- ##
- ## If no output arguments are given, the data are plotted directly.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Perform a QQ-plot (quantile plot)
-
- function [q, s] = qqplot (x, dist, ...)
-
- if (nargin < 1)
- usage ("qqplot (x [,dist [,params]])");
- endif
-
- if !(is_vector(x))
- error ("qqplot: x must be a vector.");
- endif
-
- s = sort (x);
- n = length (x);
- t = ((1 : n)' - .5) / n;
- if (nargin == 1)
- f = "stdnormal_inv";
- else
- f = sprintf ("%s_inv", dist);
- endif;
- if (nargin <= 2)
- q = feval (f, t);
- q_label = f;
- else
- param_string = sprintf ("%g", va_arg ());
- for k = 2 : (nargin - 2);
- param_string = sprintf ("%s, %g", param_string, va_arg ())
- endfor
- q = eval (sprintf ("%s (t, %s);", f, param_string));
- q_label = sprintf ("%s with parameter(s) %s", f, param_string);
- endif
-
- if (nargout == 0)
- xlabel (q_label);
- ylabel ("sample points");
- set nokey;
- plot (q, s);
- endif
-
- endfunction
-