Dear Dev I believe you may need some conceptual guidance in probability theory and statistics rather than help with a specific R function to solve your analysis. May I recomend you to visit the statistic consulting office in your campus or perhaps review a textbook on applied probability.
Best wishes Francisco >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [email protected] >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [R] question from environmental statistics >Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:03:15 -0700 > >thanks Fran. that was useful but Im still in a fix. its a real life data >which >looks like this: >0.9 >10.9 >24.0 >6.7 >0.6 >1.0 >2.4 >12.4 >7.9 >15.8 >1.4 >7.9 >11000.0 > >(benzene conc. taken after WTC attacks)..its just a small chunk of data i >pasted >for you to look at. >its neither normal nor lognormal. someone told me that qq plot does help in >determining the distribution. im not sure how to get it. > >can someone help me in this. > >thanks > > > >Take a look at this document by Vito Ricci: >http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Ricci-distributions-en.pdf > >Did you try RSiteSearch("Fit distribution") or a Google search? That will >lead you to fit.dist{gnlm} and fitdistr{MASS} > >Cheers > >Francisco > > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [R] question from environmental statistics > >Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:06:45 -0700 > > > > > > > >Dear R users > >I want to knw if there is a way in which a raw dataset can be modelled by > >some > >distribution. besides the gof test is there any test involving gamma or > >lognormal that would fit the data. > > > >thank you > > > >-dev ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
