Construction and Interpretation of P-P Plots A P-P plot compares the empirical cumulative distribution function (ecdf) of a variable with a specified theoretical cumulative distribution function ...

The plot shows a symmetric distribution with observations concentrated 6.9 and 7.1. The plot also shows that only a small percentage (<5%) ... title 'Cumulative Distribution Function of Breaking ...

You can now see these are probability density function (PDF) plots. If we re-plot the exact same distribution as a cumulative distribution, we'll get the following: Image by Julie Bang ...

However, waterfall plots are often assessed heuristically in practice with lack of statistical rigor. In this work, we examine the correspondence between the waterfall plot and the empirical ...