probability plot

collocation in English

meaningsofprobabilityandplot

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withprobability.
probability
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌprɒb.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/
us
/ˌprɑː.bəˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the level of possibility of something happening or ...
See more atprobability
plot
noun[C]
uk
/plɒt/
us
/plɑːt/
the story of a book, film, ...
See more atplot

(Definition ofprobabilityandplotfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprobability plot

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
For the relativeprobabilityplotonly concordant data (where the 2 error ellipse intersects concordia) are considered.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Figure 3 is the corresponding arithmeticprobabilityplotfor the same data.
From theCambridge English Corpus
A normalprobabilityplotwas used to check for normal distribution of residuals in regression analysis.
From theCambridge English Corpus
When there is a single bad value, the normalprobabilityplotof the effects splits into two, with half of the values above zero and the other half below zero.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In this way, aprobabilityplotcan easily be generated for any distribution for which one has the quantile function.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
This is a sample of size 50 from a right-skewed distribution, plotted as both a histogram, and a normalprobabilityplot.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
This is a sample of size 50 from a uniform distribution, plotted as both a histogram, and a normalprobabilityplot.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Other useful exploratory analysis tools for factorial experiments include main effects plots, interaction plots, and a normalprobabilityplotof the estimated effects.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
All 11 component community samples demonstrated an approximately log-normal distribution of parasite species using cumulative probability plots.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We also inspected normal probability plots of residuals and plots of fitted values versus residuals, to assess whether the regression assumptions had been violated.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Theprobabilityplotis then generated to find estimates of the location and scale parameters and in addition to provide a graphical assessment of the adequacy of the distributional fit.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
That is, for a series of values of the shape parameter, the correlation coefficient is computed for theprobabilityplotassociated with a given value of the shape parameter.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Probability plotting methods for the analysis of data.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Model assumptions were checked by examining normal probability plots of residuals at all levels, and plots of scenario level residuals against fitted values.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Figure 6 shows probability plots of the distribution functions for the logarithm of the squared velocity derivatives measured at the four heights from 2 to 12 m up.
From theCambridge English Corpus
All variables were shown to be significant within the 95% confidence intervals, and the tests satisfied the normality assumption as shown in the normal probability plots.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Normal probability plots are made of raw data, residuals from model fits, and estimated parameters.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition ofprobability
Go to the definition ofplot
See other collocations withprobability