[R] Quantiles and QQ plots

[Daniel Malter]

Your vector:

x=c(5,9,6,1,5,9,7,4,5,6,3,2,4,8,9,6,1,8,4,8)

Check descriptives:

mean(x)
sd(x)

get quantiles for a normal with mean and standard deviation of x:

qnorm(c(0.25,0.5,0.75),mean=mean(x),sd=sd(x))

Output:

[1] 3.76997 5.50000 7.23003

to get the quantile plot install library "car" and load library by typing in
the R prompt: library(car) 

qq.plot(x)

But you can easily look at the histogram of your vector - hist(x) - to see
that this does not look very normal

Daniel



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I have 20 variables:

5,9,6,1,5,9,7,4,5,6,3,2,4,8,9,6,1,8,4,8

How do I calculate the corresponding quantiles from a normal distribution
with the same mean and variance as the sample?

Also, how do I draw a QQ plot of the data?

Thanks for any help!
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