Re: QQ plot x-axis values ['Watchdog': checked]

[Paul Matthias Diderichsen <paulmatthias.diderichsen@abbott.com>]

Dear S-plus users again.

s-news-owner@lists.biostat.wustl.edu wrote on 10.10.2006
15:40:12:
> Of course, there's still one issue: There seems to be a discrepancy
> between what wikipedia says and what S-plus does. 

Apparently, S-plus selects the midpoint of n intervals
between 0 and 1 for it's horizontal values in qqmath. Of course, for n->infinity
the sets used by S-plus and wikipedia converge. But which one is "most
right" for finite/small n?

Thanks again, PMD.
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