Dera R Helpers, I am re-posting my query.
Please guide me. Maithili --- On Fri, 3/13/09, Maithili Shiva <maithili_sh...@yahoo.com> wrote: I am trying to fit the Gumbel distribution to a data. I am using lmom package. I am getting problem in Cumulative Distribution Function of Gumbel distribution as I am getting it as a series of 0's and 1's thereby affecting the P P Plot. My R code is as follows. library(quantreg) library(RODBC) library(MASS) library(actuar) library(lmom) x <- c(986.78,1067.76,1046.47,1034.71,1004.53,1007.89,964.94,1060.24,1188.07,1085.63,988.33,972.71,1177.71,972.48,1203.20,1047.27,1062.95,1113.65,995.97,1093.98) #Estimating the parameters for GUMBEL distribution N <- length(x) lmom <- samlmu(x); lmom parameters_of_GUMBEL <- pelgum(lmom); parameters_of_GUMBEL # Parameters are xi = 1019.4003 alpha = 59.5327 # _____________________ P - P Plot ________________________ e <- c(1:N) f <- c((e-.5)/N) Fx <- cdfgum(x, para = parameters_of_GUMBEL) g <- sort(Fx) png(filename = "GUMBEL_P-P.png") a <- par('bg'= "#FFFFCC") plot (f,g,bg=a,fg= "#804000",main ="P-P Plot", ylab=" Cumulative Distribution Function", xlab="i", font.main=2, cex.main=1,col="#999966",bty = "o",col.main="black",col.axis="black",col.lab ="black") abline(rq(g ~ f, tau = .5),col="red") dev.off() # Fx RETURNS 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 and Thus plot is not proper Please guide me as where I am going wrong. With regards Maithili ______________________________________________ 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.