{"id":3718,"date":"2023-12-08T15:51:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T14:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=3718"},"modified":"2024-05-06T09:18:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T07:18:21","password":"","slug":"empirical-cumulative-distribution-function-ecdf","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/empirical-cumulative-distribution-function-ecdf\/","title":{"rendered":"Empirical Cumulative Distribution Function (ECDF)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A cumulative distribution the &#8220;empirical&#8221; indicates that is based on data not on the definition of a theoretical distribution (on a &#8220;distribution generating function&#8221;).  See entry for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/cumulative-distribution\/\" title=\"\">cumulative distribution<\/a> and the resources indexed there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Online resources<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>* <a href=\"https:\/\/shiny.psyctc.org\/apps\/Gaussian1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">App creating samples from Gaussian distribution<\/a> showing histogram, ecdf and qqplot<br>* <a href=\"https:\/\/shiny.psyctc.org\/apps\/ECDFplot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">App that takes data<\/a>, pasted in or uploaded in various formats, and plots the ecdf with confidence intervals for quantiles of your choosing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>First created 8.xii.23, tweaked 6.v.24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cumulative distribution the &#8220;empirical&#8221; indicates that is based on data not on the definition of a theoretical distribution (on a &#8220;distribution generating function&#8221;). See entry for cumulative distribution and the resources indexed there. Online resources * App creating samples from Gaussian distribution showing histogram, ecdf and qqplot* App that takes data, pasted in or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/empirical-cumulative-distribution-function-ecdf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Empirical Cumulative Distribution Function (ECDF)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[18],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[],"class_list":["post-3718","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-om-book"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":76,"total_views":"1037","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"chris","author_nicename":"chris","author_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/author\/chris\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"All OM book glossary entries","term_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary\/non-knowledgebase\/om-book\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4237,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3718\/revisions\/4237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}