Have you tried fitting your data to the Pearson family of distributions? In particular the Pearson Type IV has parameters to fit skewed and kurtotic distributions. The Pearson library is described here: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/PearsonDS/PearsonDS.pdf
The Type IV is described here: http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/physics/statistics/notes/cdf6820_pearson4.pdf GL, Frank Chicago ---------------------------------------- > Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 07:03:28 -0800 > From: michaelverbi...@msn.com > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] QQplot > > Hi! > <http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4651293/qq.png> > We are stuck with a problem considering the qqplot of a dataset. > > We are trying to discover what kind of distribution this is. We already > tried to normal, exponential or the logaritmical distribution but none of > those are able to solve our problem. Is there someone able to tell us what > kind deformation we should try? > > (I'm sorry for the horrible English but I'm not a native speaker) > > Thanks! > Nathan > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/QQplot-tp4651293.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
