Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linda) wrote in message
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> > Hi!
> >
> > If I plot CDF of a sample data and this CDF looks like a straight line
> > cross through 0. What does this implies?? Normally, CDF will not look
> > like a straight line but sth like a "S2 shape, isn't??
> >
> > Linda
>
> A straight line CDF would imply the data is uniformly distributed,
> that is, the probability of one event is the same as the probability
> of any other event. The slope of the line would be the probability of
> an event.
I doubt that - if the data were distributed uniformly on [0,1/2), say, then
the slope of the line would be 2!
Glen
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