qqmath {lattice}R Documentation

Q-Q Plot with Theoretical Distribution

Description

Quantile-Quantile plot of a sample and a theoretical distribution

Usage

qqmath(formula, distribution = qnorm, f.value = ppoints,...)

Arguments

formula formula of the form ~ x | g1 * g2 * ..., where x must be a numeric.
distribution a quantile function that takes a vector of probabilities as argument and produces the corresponding quantiles. Possible values are qnorm,qunif etc. Distributions with other required arguments need to be passed in as user defined functions. This is also passed in as an argument to the panel function (though not used by the default panel function), and the prepanel function if specified, for use in the bery commonly used (pre)panel.qqmathline.
f.value function of a single integer (representing sample size), returning a vector of probabilities corresponding to which quantiles should be plotted.
... Other arguments

Details

These and all other high level Trellis functions have several arguments in common. These are extensively documented only in the help page for xyplot, which should be consulted to learn more detailed usage.

Value

An object of class ``trellis''. The `update' method can be used to update components of the object and the `print' method (usually called by default) will plot it on an appropriate plotting device.

Author(s)

Deepayan Sarkar deepayan@stat.wisc.edu

See Also

xyplot, panel.qqmath, panel.qqmathline, prepanel.qqmathline, Lattice

Examples

qqmath(~ rnorm(100), distribution = function(p) qt(p, df = 10))
data(singer)
qqmath(~ height | voice.part, aspect = 1, data = singer)

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