Peirce1852: Plots from Peirces 1852 paper

Description Usage Arguments Value Note References See Also Examples

View source: R/Peirce1852.R

Description

Produce plots of functions from Peirces 1852 paper. Initial two plots are with Hmisc::labcurve. Subsequent plots are with ggplot2. Produces plots corresponding to his functions for φ and ψ and compares the latter with erfc, the complementary error function.

Usage

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Peirce1852(width = 1366, height = 768)

Arguments

width

width width of graphical display (screen) in pixels

height

height height of graphical display (screen) in pixels

Value

Plots two curves with Hmisc::labcurve and returns a list of 4 plots from ggplot2.

Note

The tail end of function contains attempts to generate probability functions from Peirces paper. These values are not returned.

References

Peirce B (1852). Criterion for the rejection of doubtful observations. The Astronomical Journal, 2(45), 161-163.

See Also

Peirce

Examples

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