Hi, I checked the 3rd edition of this book. But I don't find Q-Q plot. Would you please take a look of the table of content below and let me know if the same section is available in the 3rd edition?
http://www.amazon.com/Plane-Answers-Complex-Questions-Theory/dp/0387953612/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254856526&sr=8-1#reader Regards, Peng On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Paul Hiemstra <p.hiems...@geo.uu.nl> wrote: > Hi Peng Yu, > > Chapter 13 of the following book provides a good description of the > assumption done when using regression and other techniques. It also > discusses the QQplot. > > @BOOK{Christensen1996, > title = {Plane Answers to Complex Questions: The Theory of Linear Models}, > publisher = {Springer, New York}, > year = {1996}, > author = {Ronald Christensen}, > edition = {Second}, > note = {496p}, > } > > cheers, > Paul > > Peng Yu wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I want to look for some detailed explanation on the properties of Q-Q >> plot and how the properties are derived. >> >> In R, there is the following reference. >> Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S >> Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole. >> >> Somebody also mentioned the following book chapter to me. >> Chambers et al., Graphical methods for Data Analysis, Ch.6. >> >> But both books are old. I'm wondering if there is any more recent >> (therefore, maybe better) books for Q-Q plot, and data visualization >> in general. >> >> Regards, >> Peng >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > > -- > Drs. Paul Hiemstra > Department of Physical Geography > Faculty of Geosciences > University of Utrecht > Heidelberglaan 2 > P.O. Box 80.115 > 3508 TC Utrecht > Phone: +3130 274 3113 Mon-Tue > Phone: +3130 253 5773 Wed-Fri > http://intamap.geo.uu.nl/~paul > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.