On Monday 30 June 2003 01:23, M. Edward Borasky wrote: > I have a collection of data which includes inter-arrival times of requests > to a server. What I've done so far with it is use "sm.density" to explore > the distribution, which found two large peaks. However, the peaks are made > up of Gaussians, and that's not really correct, because the inter-arrival > time can never be less than zero. In fact, the leftmost peak is centered at > somewhere around ten seconds, and quite a bit of it extends into negative > territory.
if you data are positive, you could use sm.density(..., positive=TRUE) and possibly make use of the additional parameter "delta" for fine tuning best wishes, Adelchi Azzalini -- Adelchi Azzalini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dipart.Scienze Statistiche, Università di Padova, Italia http://azzalini.stat.unipd.it/ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
