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Re: st: RE: CDF log-normal and histogram


From   Beatrice Crozza <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: CDF log-normal and histogram
Date   Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:53:04 +0000

Dear Nick and Maarten,.

Thank you very much for your answers.

Is there a way to write the following command with a longnormal insted
of a normal?

histogram var1, freq normal

I tried:
historgam var1, freq lognormal

but doesn't work.

Thank you very much.

Bea



2011/2/12 Maarten buis <[email protected]>:
> --- Beatrice Crozza
>> I want to have a graph which combine the histogram of
>> frequencies for my variable and on the same graph an
>> empirical CDF of data and a fitted CDF (log-normal)
>
> --- On Fri, 11/2/11, Nick Cox wrote:
>> Not the graph I would use in that territory.
>>
>> See -lognfit- (Stephen Jenkins, SSC) and -qlogn- from
>> -qpfit- (SSC) for more critical choices.
>
> Yet another options that remains closer to the histogram
> theme while solving some of the difficulties Beatrice's
> graph would be -hangroot- (see: -ssc d hangroot- or
> <http://www.maartenbuis.nl/software/hangroot.html>)
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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