Olympio:
I used the Minitab menus to produce the following code
and graph the standard normal density. To do other densities
you need to change the range of values appropriately and
change the density calculated and stored.
Hope this helps.
Jon Cryer
MTB > Name c1 = 'z'
MTB > Set 'z'
DATA> 1( -4 : 4 / .01 )1 # Could shorten to -4:4/.01 Change for other
densities
DATA> End.
MTB > Name c2 = 'Density'
MTB > PDF 'z' 'Density'; # change for other densities
SUBC> Normal 0.0 1.0.# change for other densities
MTB > Plot 'Density'*'z';
SUBC> Connect; # Connect as a smooth curve
SUBC> ScFrame; # not needed
SUBC> ScAnnotation; # not needed
SUBC> Reference 2 0. # added to put a nice base on the curve
At 04:47 AM 7/6/00 GMT, you wrote:
>Friends:
>
>How Minitab can show the Density Function of a variable? Can the
>program calculate this one and show the formula?
>
>Thanks
>Olympio
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