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Message-ID: <20020811014901.46775.qmail@web13905.mail.yahoo.com>
Date: 2002-08-11T01:49:01Z
From: Deepayan Sarkar
Subject: Weird densityplot behaviour
In-Reply-To: <20020810162439.POUQ22294.tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@there>

--- Geoff Wright <geoffwright at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> When I do: 
> rx<-rnorm(500)
> densityplot(rx)
> 
> I get something that looks reasonable.
> 
> However, when I do:
> rx<-rnorm(5)
> densityplot(rx)
> 
> I get strange results sometimes...
> For example, if rx = c(1,1,1,1,2), then the resulting plot shows marginal 
> densities greater than 1.  

And why exactly is that strange ? For instance, try calculating the 
normal(0, .3^2) density at 0 [ dnorm(0, mean = 0, sd = .3) ]. 

> I must be overlooking something.
> 
> Thanks.
> geoff
> 
>
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