Re: st: qnorm

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
> 1. Simulate several samples from a distribution with the same mean and
> standard deviation (or more generally an appropriate mean and standard
> deviation) and use the resulting portfolio of plots in assessing what
> kind of variability is to be expected.

An easy way to do so is to use the -margdistfit- package, which you
can install by typing in Stata -ssc install margdistfit-. The default
is actually to first sample the mean and the standard deviation from
its sampling distribution and than sample a new variable with those
sampled means and standard deviation. I suspect that this makes sense
in most cases, though I also suspect that it won't matter much. If you
want to do exactly what Nick proposes you can add the -noparsamp-
option.

Here is an example of what such a graph would look like:

*-------- begin example -----------
sysuse auto, clear
reg mpg
margdistfit, qq name(qq)
margdistfit, pp name(pp)
margdistfit, hangroot name(hangr)
margdistfit, cumul name(cumul)
*--------- end example ------------
(For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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