Message-ID: <4332EF96.9000102@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2005-09-22T17:53:26Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: how to keep very small or large number?
In-Reply-To: <20050922165252.82817.qmail@web51807.mail.yahoo.com>
On 9/22/2005 12:52 PM, Cunningham Kerry wrote:
> When I was computing some joint probabilities, I found
> that R reported most of the results to to -Inf and
> thus didn't record the value. I guess it is b/c the
> joint log(probability) can be extremely small. Is
> there a way in R to keep the values even if they are
> small?
Leave them in log form, take exponentials only when you need to report them.
Duncan Murdoch