Half-Normal Probability Plots. (半常态概率图)
Half-Normal Probability Plots - Categorized. This type of graph is used to evaluate the normality of the distribution of a variable(变量分布密度), that is, whether and to what extent the distribution of the variable follows the normal distribution. The selected variable will be plotted in a scatterplot(散点图) against the values "expected from the normal distribution." The half-normal probability plot is constructed in the same way as the standard normal probability plot, except that only the positive half of the normal curve is considered. Consequently, only positive normal values will be plotted on the Y-axis. This plot is used when one wants to ignore the sign of the residual(残差的符号), that is, when one is mostly interested in the distribution of absolute residuals, regardless of the sign.