density function
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Hui Han wrote:
I wonder if the function "density" outputs the gaussian mixture formula that is estimated from the input data, assuming a gaussian model is used at each data point ? I want to take the derivative of the finally estimated gaussian mixture formula for further analysis.
It is a kernel density estimate: a rather trivial mixture, not necessarily Gaussian. Also, it is not set up to optimally estimate a derivative, and you should look at more sophisticated methods in other packages if you want to do that. As to what "density" outputs: see its help page.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595