[R] Strange results for Beta Distribution

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

Why strange? It is known that Beta(1, 1) = Uniform(0,1) whose density 
is 1/(1-0)=1

Best,
Dimitris

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Dimitris Rizopoulos
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Biostatistical Centre
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Catholic University of Leuven

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----- 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
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> Brescia Italy
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