Re: [R] Looking for the name of a certain kind of quantile plot

2012-04-04 Thread Carl Witthoft
Thanks, Chuck. That looks about right. And I would have provided repro code, but I was forced to write it in Matlab on account of corporate rules, and haven't translated to R yet. Carl Witthoft writes: > Hi, > While playing with quantile-quantile plots, I wrote up some code which > plots s

Re: [R] Looking for the name of a certain kind of quantile plot

2012-04-04 Thread cberry
Carl Witthoft writes: > Hi, > While playing with quantile-quantile plots, I wrote up some code which > plots something strangely different. Here's the pseudocode: > > testhist <- hist(sample_data) > refhist <- hist(rnorm(n, mean=0,sd=1)) # for some large-ish n > cumtest <- cumsum(testhist) > cu

[R] Looking for the name of a certain kind of quantile plot

2012-04-03 Thread Carl Witthoft
Hi, While playing with quantile-quantile plots, I wrote up some code which plots something strangely different. Here's the pseudocode: testhist <- hist(sample_data) refhist <- hist(rnorm(n, mean=0,sd=1)) # for some large-ish n cumtest <- cumsum(testhist) cumref <- cumsum(refhist) plot(cumref