Oh, come on: have you never heard of the Poisson approximation? > ppois(1, 1.95*seq(1.02,1.03,10^-3), lower=F,log=T) [1] -0.5259247 -0.5250276 -0.5241321 -0.5232383 -0.5223462 -0.5214557 [7] -0.5205669 -0.5196798 -0.5187943 -0.5179104 -0.5170282
Probably you believe that computers never make errors too. On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > the command > > pbinom(size=1.95*10^10,prob=seq(1.02,1.03,10^-3)*10^-10,q=1,lower=F,log=T) > > produced the output > > [1] -46.0120973 -46.0101369 -46.0081784 -46.0062239 -46.0042692 -46.0023165 > [7] -0.5205666 -0.5196801 -0.5187944 -0.5179102 -0.5170278 > > > what seems strange. Has this survived in newer versions? > > Best regards, > Volkmar Liebscher > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
