User's Guide to the Model Validation Kit - Harmonisation within ...

Table 15 Commands entered in a dialogue with the RESIDUAL utility in order to prepare data
files for both a quantile-quantile plot and a box plot of ratios.
C:\MvK\Tools\Run1>residual
Name of input file:
Name of output file:
ki3.inp
ki3ratio.dat
Following models are available, choose two models, i and j,
where the ratio of Model(i)/Model(j) will be analyzed against
the independent variables:
1 ) C_OBS
2 ) C_MOD
0 ) All 1’s
Enter the two numbers, in order, between 0 and 2
2 1
Implement a lower threshold on the ratio (/n) ?
y
Enter the lower threshold on the ratio (e.g. 0.01)
0.01
Implement a upper threshold on the ratio (/n) ?
y
Enter the upper threshold on the ratio (e.g. 100.)
100
Do you wish to use extended capabilities of RESIDUW (/n) ?
y
Do you wish to impose a filter, so that the ratio C_MOD/C_OBS is
considered unity when both C_MOD and C_OBS are small ?
(This will remove noise, thus making it easier to
diagnose tendencies in data)
(/n) y
What is the threshold for this filter (e.g. 15.) ? 15
Normally, on box plots produced by RESIDUAL, the following
percentiles are indicated:
(1) 2.4 16 50 84 and 97.6
For plots of ratios, this is not always pertinent. Often, the
boxes stretch over many decades, so that no tendencies can be
seen in such plots.
Therefore, you can choose to use an alternative set of
percentiles:
(2) 5 25 50 75 95
Enter 1 or 2, according to your desire >>>> 2
Do you want to create a file suitable for a
quantile-quantile-plot (/n) ? y
Name of additional output file (suggested type: .QUA): ki3.qua
Reading data
Summary of choices made:
A lower threshold of 9.99999978E-03 has been imposed on the ratio,
An upper threshold of 100.000000 has been imposed on the ratio.
A filter has been imposed on small values of variables.
The filter value is 15.00
The ratio has been changed to unity in 23 of 338 cases.
The alternative set of percentiles (5, 25, 50, 75, 95) is used.
The file ki3ratio.dat has been created.
The file ki3.qua has been created as basis for q-q plots.
C:\MvK\Tools\Run1>
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