Strange results for Beta Distribution
Why strange? It is known that Beta(1, 1) = Uniform(0,1) whose density is 1/(1-0)=1 Best, Dimitris ---- Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic University of Leuven Address: Kapucijnenvoer 35, Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32/16/396887 Fax: +32/16/337015 Web: http://www.med.kuleuven.ac.be/biostat/ http://www.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~m0390867/dimitris.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: <parrinel at med.unibs.it> To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 10:24 AM Subject: [R] Strange results for Beta Distribution
Dear All, 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? TIA Giovanni dr. Giovanni Parrinello Section of Medical Statistics Department of Biosciences University of Brescia 25127 Viale Europa, 11 Brescia Italy Tel: +390303717528 Fax: +390303701157
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