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- Question:
- Best-fit member within a distributional family?
- Definition:
- Vertical Axis: Probability plot correlation coefficient
- Horizontal Axis: Family tail or shape parameter
- Interpretation/Conclusion:
- Best-fit symmetric distribution is near-normal
- Data is not long-tailed
- Sample median would be a poor estimator of location
- NIST/SEMATECH Handbook Chapter:
- 1.
Exploratory Data Analysis
- Reference:
- Filliben (1975), "The Probability Plot Correlation
Coefficient Test for Normality," Technometrics,
Vol. 17, No. 1.
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