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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0212161129490.27372-100000@austin>
Date: 2002-12-16T12:39:02Z
From: Dr Andrew Wilson
Subject: Partial Sums

Is it possible to calculate partial sums in R?

I have the equation:

Px  =  (k / x) * SUM_{from j >= x to infinity} Pj             x=1,2,3,...

where k is a parameter, Pj is the Poisson probability, and x is a rank.
(This is for rank-frequency data.)  In other words, the frequency of an
entity at rank x depends on the sum of frequencies of all entities at
ranks j > x.

Many thanks,
Andrew Wilson