Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions?

2009-02-16 Thread Greg Snow
Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions? To: jasonkrup...@yahoo.com Cc: Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com, r-h...@r- project.org Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 9:10 AM This is probably the right time

Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions?

2009-02-15 Thread David Winsemius
On Feb 14, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Jason Rupert wrote: Many thanks to Greg L. Snow and David Winsemius for their responses. First off I can safely say I don't know enough statistics to be dangerous, but hopefully I will get to that point:) Regarding the goal - ultimately I would like to use

Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions?

2009-02-14 Thread Jason Rupert
: Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions? To: jasonkrup...@yahoo.com Cc: R-help@r-project.org Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 5:43 AM You can readily create a dynamic display for using qqplot

Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions?

2009-02-14 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
...@gmail.com wrote: From: Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions? To: jasonkrup...@yahoo.com Cc: R-help@r-project.org Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 5:43 AM You can readily create a dynamic display

Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions?

2009-02-13 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
You can readily create a dynamic display for using qqplot and similar functions in conjunction with either the playwith or TeachingDemos packages. For example, to investigate the effect of the shape parameter in the skew normal distribution on its qqplot relative to the normal distribution:

Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions?

2009-02-13 Thread Jason Rupert
, Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: From: Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions? To: jasonkrup...@yahoo.com Cc: R-help@r-project.org Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 5:43 AM You can readily

Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions?

2009-02-13 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
You might also want to look at the idealized situation: library(playwith) library(sn) playwith(qqnorm(qsn(1:99/100, shape = shape)), parameters = list(shape = seq(-3, 3, .1))) On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: You can readily create a

Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions?

2009-02-13 Thread David Winsemius
understanding of the techniques using this powerful software package. --- On Fri, 2/13/09, Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: From: Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions

Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions?

2009-02-13 Thread davidr
Grothendieck Cc: R-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Website, book, paper,etc. that shows example plots of distributions? Thank you very much.  Thank you again regarding the suggestion below.  I will give that a shot and I guess I've got my work counted out for me.  I counted 45 different

[R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions?

2009-02-12 Thread Jason Rupert
By any chance is any one aware of a website, book, paper, etc. or combinations of those sources that show plots of different distributions? After reading a pretty good whitepaper I became aware of the benefit of I the benefit of doing Q-Q plots and histograms to help assess a distribution.  

Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions?

2009-02-12 Thread Juliet Hannah
You may find the qreference function in the DAAG package helpful. It makes several QQ plots to give a sense of what kind of fluctuations can be expected. You can also construct a series of any plots you are interested in (using different distributions), and modifying the code in this function may

Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions?

2009-02-12 Thread Jason Rupert
.      Thank you again for any further insights.        --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Juliet Hannah juliet.han...@gmail.com wrote: From: Juliet Hannah juliet.han...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [R] Website, book, paper, etc. that shows example plots of distributions? To: jasonkrup...@yahoo.com Cc: R-help@r