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Ordinates for Probability Plotting

Syntax

ppoints(n)

Arguments

n either the number of points generate or a vector of observations.

Description

This generates the sequence of points (1:m - 0.5)/m where m is either n, if length(n)==1, or length(n). It is used in qqplot, qqnorm to generate the set of probabilities at which to evaluate the inverse distribution.

See Also

qqplot, qqnorm.