Examples
This is a sample of size 50 from a normal distribution, plotted as both a histogram, and a normal probability plot.
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Normal probability plot of a sample from a normal distribution – it looks fairly straight, at least when the few large and small values are ignored.
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Histogram of a sample from a normal distribution – it looks fairly symmetric and unimodal
This is a sample of size 50 from a right-skewed distribution, plotted as both a histogram, and a normal probability plot.
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Normal probability plot of a sample from a right-skewed distribution – it has an inverted C shape.
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Histogram of a sample from a right-skewed distribution – it looks unimodal and skewed right.
This is a sample of size 50 from a uniform distribution, plotted as both a histogram, and a normal probability plot.
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Normal probability plot of a sample from a uniform distribution – it has an S shape.
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Histogram of a sample from a uniform distribution – it looks multimodal and supposedly roughly symmetric.
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