{"id":1089,"date":"2007-07-04T19:59:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T17:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/07\/04\/qq-plot\/"},"modified":"2007-07-04T20:05:33","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T18:05:33","slug":"qq-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/07\/qq-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"QQ plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you wonder what QQ means? These are quantile &#8211; quantile plots that rank observed test statistics against expected test statistics. They allow a visual inspection of overdispersion due to population substructure or other sources of biases.<br \/>\nQQ plots have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nrg\/journal\/v7\/n10\/abs\/nrg1916.html\">recommended earlier<\/a>, are now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v447\/n7145\/full\/nature05911.html\">frequently used<\/a> and available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www-gene.cimr.cam.ac.uk\/clayton\/software\/\">snpMatrix<\/a> R package. Yea, yea.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/qqplot1.png\" title='' data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img src='https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/qqplot1.thumbnail.png' alt='qqplot1.png' \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 07.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you wonder what QQ means? These are quantile &#8211; quantile plots that rank observed test statistics against expected test statistics. They allow a visual inspection of overdispersion due to population substructure or other sources of biases. QQ plots have been recommended earlier, are now frequently used and available in the snpMatrix R package. Yea, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/07\/qq-plot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">QQ plot<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","category-computer-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}