[R] What ECDF function?

2007-06-09 Thread Shiazy Fuzzy
Hello! I want to plot a P-P plot. So I've implemented this function: ppplot - function(x,dist,...) { pdf - get(paste(p,dist,sep=),mode=function); x - sort(x); plot( pdf(x,...), ecdf(x)(x)); } I have two questions: 1. Is it right to draw as reference line the following: xx -

Re: [R] What ECDF function?

2007-06-09 Thread Robert A LaBudde
At 12:57 PM 6/9/2007, Marco wrote: snip 2.I found various version of P-P plot where instead of using the ecdf function use ((1:n)-0.5)/n After investigation I found there're different definition of ECDF (note i is the rank): * Kaplan-Meier: i/n * modified Kaplan-Meier: (i-0.5)/n *

Re: [R] What ECDF function?

2007-06-09 Thread Shiazy Fuzzy
On 6/9/07, Robert A LaBudde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:57 PM 6/9/2007, Marco wrote: snip 2.I found various version of P-P plot where instead of using the ecdf function use ((1:n)-0.5)/n After investigation I found there're different definition of ECDF (note i is the rank): *

Re: [R] What ECDF function?

2007-06-09 Thread Robert A LaBudde
At 06:36 PM 6/9/2007, Marco wrote: On 6/9/07, Robert A LaBudde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:57 PM 6/9/2007, Marco wrote: snip snip Hmmm I'm a bit confused, but very interested! So you don't use the R ecdf, do you? Only when an i/n edf is needed (some tests, such as ks.test() are based on