Re: [R] Goodness fit test HELP!

2005-12-03 Thread Charles Annis, P.E.
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Re: [R] Goodness fit test HELP!

2005-12-03 Thread Martin Maechler
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amit> Elizabeth Lawson Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 8:06 Amit> PM To: David Zhao Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Amit> Subject: Re: [R] Goodness fit test HELP! Amit> What about trying a qqplot to see how the distribution

Re: [R] Goodness fit test HELP!

2005-12-03 Thread Amit Kabiri
@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] Goodness fit test HELP! What about trying a qqplot to see how the distribution fits... For the normal distribution thta is very stright forward, use qqnorm. To test gamma distribtution (or any other) do some thing like this n<-length(data) for(i

Re: [R] Goodness fit test HELP!

2005-11-18 Thread Elizabeth Lawson
What about trying a qqplot to see how the distribution fits... For the normal distribution thta is very stright forward, use qqnorm. To test gamma distribtution (or any other) do some thing like this n<-length(data) for(i in 1:n){ prob<-(i-1/3)/(n1/3) } quantiles<-qgamma(

Re: [R] Goodness fit test HELP!

2005-11-17 Thread Vito Ricci
Hi David, you could see my contribute: "Fitting distributions with R" http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Ricci-distributions-en.pdf Hoping it could be helpful. Regards, Vito You wrote: Hi there, I'm a newbie, plesae bear with me. I have a dataset with about 1 ~ 3 data points.

Re: [R] Goodness fit test HELP!

2005-11-17 Thread Berton Gunter
t; To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] Goodness fit test HELP! > > Hi there, > > I'm a newbie, plesae bear with me. > I have a dataset with about 1 ~ 3 data points. Would > like fit to > both Gamma and Normal distribution to see which one fits > be

[R] Goodness fit test HELP!

2005-11-17 Thread David Zhao
Hi there, I'm a newbie, plesae bear with me. I have a dataset with about 1 ~ 3 data points. Would like fit to both Gamma and Normal distribution to see which one fits better. How do I do this in R? Or I could do a normality test of the data, if it's normal, I then will do a normal fit, oth