A Plotting Rule for Extreme Probability Paper
Abstract
A primary purpose in plotting a set of ordered observations on probability paper is to simplify the inspection of their distribution. With this limited objective a plotting rule for the ith of n ordered observations from a double exponential distribution is obtained as ?i = (i - 0.44)/(n + 0.12), where n is the number of observations, i is the order of the observation from the smallest, and ?i is the estimate of the cumulative frequency of the ith term.
- Publication:
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Journal of Geophysical Research
- Pub Date:
- February 1963
- DOI:
- 10.1029/JZ068i003p00813
- Bibcode:
- 1963JGR....68..813G