nigPlots: Normal inverse Gaussian Quantile-Quantile and Percent-Percent Plots

Description

qqnig produces a normal inverse Gaussian Q-Q plot of the values in y.

ppnig produces a normal inverse Gaussian P-P (percent-percent) or probability plot of the values in y.

Graphical parameters may be given as arguments to qqnig, and ppnig.

Usage

qqnig(y, mu = 0, delta = 1, alpha = 1, beta = 0,
         param = c(mu, delta, alpha, beta),
         main = "Normal inverse Gaussian Q-Q Plot",
         xlab = "Theoretical Quantiles",
         ylab = "Sample Quantiles",
         plot.it = TRUE, line = TRUE, ...)
ppnig(y, mu = 0, delta = 1, alpha = 1, beta = 0,
         param = c(mu, delta, alpha, beta),
         main = "Normal inverse Gaussian P-P Plot",
         xlab = "Uniform Quantiles",
         ylab = "Probability-integral-transformed Data",
         plot.it = TRUE, line = TRUE, ...)

Value

For qqnig and ppnig, a list with components:

x: The x coordinates of the points that are to be plotted.
y: The y coordinates of the points that are to be plotted.

Arguments

y: The data sample.
mu: $μ$ is the location parameter. By default this is set to 0.
delta: $δ$ is the scale parameter of the distribution. A default value of 1 has been set.
alpha: $α$ is the tail parameter, with a default value of 1.
beta: $β$ is the skewness parameter, by default this is 0.
param: Parameters of the normal inverse Gaussian distribution.
xlab, ylab, main: Plot labels.
plot.it: Logical. Should the result be plotted?
line: Add line through origin with unit slope.
...: Further graphical parameters.

References

Wilk, M. B. and Gnanadesikan, R. (1968) Probability plotting methods for the analysis of data. Biometrika. 55, 1--17.

Examples

Run this code

par(mfrow = c(1, 2))
param <- c(2, 2, 2, 1.5)
y <- rnig(200, param = param)
qqnig(y, param = param, line = FALSE)
abline(0, 1, col = 2)
ppnig(y, param = param)

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