From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Sep 26 19:45:15 2003
Subject: Probability scale
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Phi Reardon <pcr at pcrt dot com>
cc: octave-graphics mailing list <octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:45:10 -0500

On 26-Sep-2003, Phi Reardon <pcr at pcrt dot com> wrote:

| It seems to me (correct me if I am wrong) that octave can plot on
| linear or log scales, but not probability scales.  This would not be
| too hard to implement, it seems to me, but is not a current octave
| (or gnuplot) capability.  If it were in place, then log-probability
| graphs of distributions like the log-normal distribution would be
| easy.  Since this is a common sort of distribution, and even a
| common sort of graph paper, how about it?

OK, write it up and send in a patch.

If there is something similar in Matlab, it would probably help to
have a compatible interface.

jwe