The following properties of Q-Q plots and probability plots make them useful diagnostics of how well a specified theoretical distribution fits a set of measurements: Q-Q plots are more convenient than ...

Note: You must specify a value for the shape parameter for a lognormal Q-Q plot with the SIGMA= option or its alias, the SHAPE= option. The plot in Output 10.2.2 displays the most linear point pattern ...

In extreme-value analysis, a central topic is the adaptive estimation of the extreme-value index γ. Hitherto, most of the attention in this area has been devoted to the case γ > 0, that is, when F̄ is ...

This article derives simultaneous 100(1 - α)% confidence intervals for the quantiles of a normal distribution using a method first proposed by Cheng and Iles and independently rediscovered by Satten.