THanks for the clarification... CCC
"Radford Neal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > In article <aa6jqm$d2e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Chia C Chong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Just a very simple question. What is the correct arycom for "probability > >density function"? Should it be *pdf* or *PDF*? Am I right that, normally > >people use *pdf* for "probability density function" and *PDF* for > >"probability distribution function"? > > No, I don't think that is the convention. I would take either "pdf" > or "PDF" as meaning "probability density function". The usual > abbreviation for the distribuiton function is "cdf" or "CDF" - for > "cumulative distribution function". I think it is good practice to > always put in the "cumulative", since many people will have a tendency > to misinterpert "distribution function" as meaning "density function". > > Radford Neal > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Radford M. Neal [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dept. of Statistics and Dept. of Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] > University of Toronto http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~radford > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
