All the density estimators I've found in R seem to force the ends
to go to zero. What can we do if we don't believe that, e.g., with
something that might be a uniform distribution or a truncated normal
with only observations above mu+sigma observed?
The closest I could come to this was to artificially extend the
numbers beyond the range, thereby forcing the density estimator to
continue outside the range of the numbers, then plot only the part that
I wanted. The following example supposes simulates observations from a
truncated normal with mean 0, standard deviation 1, and only
observations above 1.5 are observed and we faked numbers between 1 and
1.5:
set.seed(1)
tst <- rnorm(1000)
tst1 <- tst[tst>1]
knl <- density(tst1)
sel <- knl$x>1.5
plot(knl$x[sel], knl$y[sel], type="l")
Are there any convenient methods for handling this kind of thing
currently available in R?
Thanks,
Spencer Graves