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- Subject: quantile plots
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- From: wsimpson@uwpg02.uwinnipeg.ca
- Date: 4 JAN 93 17:43:32 CST
- Organization: University of Winnipeg
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- I am wondering about the statistical treatment of quantile plots.
- Suppose we have a quantile plot that looks linear. This reveals
- a uniform distribution.
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- My question is this: how can we fit a line to the points?
- Linear regression won't do since the observations in a quantile
- plot are not independent. I am particularly interested in
- estimating parameters of the distribution from the best fitting line
- and finding confidence intervals.
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- I am not especially interested in the particular example of uniform
- distribution. I am interested in the general problem of fitting
- curves to quantile plots.
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- Thanks very much for any help.
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- Bill Simpson
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