[R] Quantiles and QQ plots

[Bill.Venables at csiro.au]

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Subject: [R] Quantiles and QQ plots


I have 20 variables:

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

[WNV] I think you have 20 values, not variables.


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


[WNV] There is some ambiguity about this, but a simple way to do it
would be

x <- c(5,9,6,1,5,9,7,4,5,6,3,2,4,8,9,6,1,8,4,8)
n <- length(x)
p <- (1:n - 0.5)/n
z <- qnorm(p, mean(x), sd(x))[order(order(x))]




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

[WNV] having done all this you can now just

plot(z, x)

but a much simpler way is

qqnorm(x)
qqline(x)

and don't bother calculating all that stuff!

Thanks for any help!
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