On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Michael Haenlein <haenl...@escpeurope.eu> wrote:
> I would like to find a continuous approximation of this discrete > distribution in order to estimate the probability that a person is for > example 16 years old. Given that people age continuously (and continually...), you sound like you are trying to replace one discrete distribution with another (discretised by year). A continuous distribution would give you, for example, the probability that a person is between 16.0 and 16.1 years old. Barry ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.