Thanks everyone. I should have thought of dnorm as a straing return from the
normal density formula.
Hailu
On 2/27/07, Charilaos Skiadas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> Because dnorm gives you the density function, whose integral is the
> distribution function, which is likely what you want. Try:
>
> pnorm(0.00003,mean=0, sd=0.1)
>
> > This is happening on two different installations of R that I have.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Hailu
>
> Haris Skiadas
> Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
> Hanover College
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