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R Graphs Cookbook Second Edition

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R Graphs Cookbook Second Edition

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
R Graphs Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Visualizing an empirical Cumulative Distribution Function


The empirical Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) is the non-parametric maximum-likelihood estimation of the CDF. In this recipe, we will see how the empirical CDF can be produced.

Getting ready

To produce this plot, we need to use the latticeExtra library. We will use the simulated dataset as shown in the following code:

# Set a seed value to make the data reproducible
set.seed(12345)
qqdata <-data.frame(disA=rnorm(n=100,mean=20,sd=3),
                disB=rnorm(n=100,mean=25,sd=4),
                disC=rnorm(n=100,mean=15,sd=1.5),
                age=sample((c(1,2,3,4)),size=100,replace=T),
                sex=sample(c("Male","Female"),size=100,replace=T),
                econ_status=sample(c("Poor","Middle","Rich"),
                size=100,replace=T))

How to do it…

To plot an empirical CDF, we first need to call the latticeExtra library (note that this library has a dependency on RColorBrewer). Now, to plot the empirical CDF...