Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot

2011-11-28 Thread Bert Gunter
2 hypotheses: 1. Homework problem 2, extrapolation Cheers, Bert On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Frank Harrell wrote: > Note that fitting to the ECDF will result in a distribution estimator that > has the same mean squared error as the ECDF.  That makes it difficult to see > the value of fitti

Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot

2011-11-28 Thread Frank Harrell
Note that fitting to the ECDF will result in a distribution estimator that has the same mean squared error as the ECDF. That makes it difficult to see the value of fitting. Frank Lathouri, Maria wrote > > Dear all, > > I need to plot an cumulative distribution plot of a variable and then to > f

Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot

2011-11-27 Thread ranmaaa
I wanna get the x and y value of the QQ-plot from this plotdist function. What should I do..?? Thank you Kind regards, Rahma djmuseR wrote > > Hi: > > The fitdistrplus package from CRAN may be useful. I tried it on your data > and the lognormal seemed to fit well, apart from the outlier.

Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot

2011-03-15 Thread Frank Harrell
21:36 > To: Lathouri, Maria > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot > > Hi: > > The fitdistrplus package from CRAN may be useful. I tried it on your data > and the lognormal seemed to fit well, apart from the outlier. I

Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot

2011-03-15 Thread Lathouri, Maria
Hallo yes I tried it as well and it works; Thank you a lot Maria From: Dennis Murphy [djmu...@gmail.com] Sent: 15 March 2011 21:36 To: Lathouri, Maria Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot Hi: The fitdistrplus package

Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot

2011-03-15 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: The fitdistrplus package from CRAN may be useful. I tried it on your data and the lognormal seemed to fit well, apart from the outlier. I just followed the vignette that accompanies the package. library(fitdistplus) plotdist(NOEccu) # ecdf descdist(NOEccu, boot =

Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot

2011-03-15 Thread Carlos Ortega
nt: 15 March 2011 16:19 > To: Lathouri, Maria > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot > > On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Lathouri, Maria wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I need to plot an cumulative distribution plot of a vari

Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot

2011-03-15 Thread David Winsemius
From: David Winsemius [dwinsem...@comcast.net] Sent: 15 March 2011 16:19 To: Lathouri, Maria Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Lathouri, Maria wrote: Dear all, I need to plot an cumulative distribution

Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot

2011-03-15 Thread Lathouri, Maria
To: Lathouri, Maria Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Lathouri, Maria wrote: > Dear all, > > I need to plot an cumulative distribution plot of a variable and > then to fit a distribution to that, probably

Re: [R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot

2011-03-15 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Lathouri, Maria wrote: Dear all, I need to plot an cumulative distribution plot of a variable and then to fit a distribution to that, probably a weibull or lognormal. I have plotted the ecdf as plot(ecdf(x)) but I haven't managed to fit the distribution. I

[R] fitting a distribution to a ecdf plot

2011-03-15 Thread Lathouri, Maria
Dear all, I need to plot an cumulative distribution plot of a variable and then to fit a distribution to that, probably a weibull or lognormal. I have plotted the ecdf as > plot(ecdf(x)) but I haven't managed to fit the distribution. I have as well attached the data. I would appreciate if you