Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0411090956040.12253-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2004-11-09T09:58:43Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Strange results for Beta Distribution
In-Reply-To: <41909AE5.3191.46EF9B@localhost>
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 parrinel at med.unibs.it wrote:
> I got these results from the example in the function "dbeta":
>
> >x <- seq(0, 1, length=21)
> > dbeta(x, 1, 1)
> [1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
> Any Idea?
What does help page say the density is?
A Beta(1,1) distribution is U(0, 1), and that has density 1.
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