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RE: st: Can't generate perfect theoretic standard normal.

From	"Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>
To	<statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Subject	RE: st: Can't generate perfect theoretic standard normal.
Date	Thu, 10 May 2007 15:15:56 +0100

I can't take the minute differences in this thread very seriously 
but I think I recall, for what it's worth, that the late Gunnar Blom 
recommended (in this notation) (_n - 3/8) / (_N + 3/4) 
as a plotting position for (near) Gaussian data. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 


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