QQ Plot labels

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David
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QQ Plot labels

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Hi, under descriptives when qq plotting a continuous variable the y axis is labelled "standardised residual". I'm trying to understand what the residual is?

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jonathon
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wait, is this a very british way of pointing out there's no s on residuals?

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oh wait, yeah, i see your point. we might have copy/pasted some code there :P
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haha, nope I'm not being British. I get that QQ plots of residuals are useful for regression diagnostics, but I am not clear what the residuals might be when looking at a sample distribution. I thought I might be being a bit thick...

ps the QQ plots are also labelled this way for t-test diagnostics...
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yeah, they're just z-scores. same as Q-Q plot if you did a one-sample t-test.
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yeah that makes sense. I'm teaching this tomorrow so wanted to be clear. Might be a good idea to change the labelling?
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Might be a good idea ...
haha, i think that might count as british. yup, we'll change it.

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