IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/japsta/v41y2014i1p118-126.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A proposal for plotting positions in probability plots

Author

Listed:
  • E.D. Lozano-Aguilera,
  • Mar�a Dolores Estudillo-Mart�nez
  • Sonia Castillo-Guti�rrez

Abstract

Probability plots allow us to determine whether a set of sample observations is distributed according to a theoretical distribution. Plotting positions are fundamental elements in statistics and, in particular, for the construction of probability plots. In this paper, a new plotting position to construct different probability plots, such as Q--Q Plot, P--P Plot and S--P Plot, is proposed. The proposed definition is based on the median of the i th order statistic of the theoretical distribution considered. The main feature of this plotting position formula is that it is independent of the theoretical distribution selected. Moreover, the procedure developed is 'almost' exact, reaching, without a high cost of time, an accuracy as great as we want, which avoids using approximations (proposed by other authors).

Suggested Citation

  • E.D. Lozano-Aguilera, & Mar�a Dolores Estudillo-Mart�nez & Sonia Castillo-Guti�rrez, 2014. "A proposal for plotting positions in probability plots," Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(1), pages 118-126, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:japsta:v:41:y:2014:i:1:p:118-126
    DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2013.831814
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/02664763.2013.831814
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/02664763.2013.831814?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. V. Barnett, 1975. "Probability Plotting Methods and Order Statistics," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 24(1), pages 95-108, March.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Rister, M. Edward & Skees, Jerry R., 1982. "The Value Of Outlook Information In Post-Harvest Marketing Strategies," 1982 Annual Meeting, August 1-4, Logan, Utah 279431, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    2. King, Robert P. & Lybecker, Donald W., 1983. "Flexible, Risk-Oriented Marketing Strategies For Pinto Bean Producers," Western Journal of Agricultural Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 8(2), pages 1-10, December.
    3. José Antonio Palenzuela & Jorge David Jiménez-Perálvarez & José Chacón & Clemente Irigaray, 2016. "Assessing critical rainfall thresholds for landslide triggering by generating additional information from a reduced database: an approach with examples from the Betic Cordillera (Spain)," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 84(1), pages 185-212, October.
    4. King, Robert P., 1979. "Operational Techniques for Applied Decision Analysis Under Uncertainty," AAEA Fellows - Dissertations and Theses, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 181951, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:japsta:v:41:y:2014:i:1:p:118-126. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/CJAS20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.