well, nobody said that the density must be smaller than 1, right? :-) it's just the value of the normal density function at the point you asked. you may try doing that by hand and, with the correct math, you'll get the same thing.
b On Feb 26, 2007, at 3:03 PM, A Hailu wrote: > Hi All, > Why would calls to dnorm and dmvnorm return values that are above > 1? For > example, >> dnorm(0.00003,mean=0, sd=0.1) > [1] 3.989423 > > This is happening on two different installations of R that I have. > > Thank you. > > Hailu ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
