[R] dlogis for large negative numbers

Dimitris Rizopoulos dimitris.rizopoulos at med.kuleuven.ac.be
Wed Oct 6 17:30:05 CEST 2004


Hi to all,

> dlogis(-2000)
[1] NaN
Warning message: 
NaNs produced in: dlogis(x, location, scale, log) 
> dnorm(-2000)
[1] 0


Is this an expected behaviour of `dlogis()'?

Thanks in advance for any comments,
Dimitris

platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386           
os       mingw32        
system   i386, mingw32  
status                  
major    1              
minor    9.1            
year     2004           
month    06             
day      21             
language R      

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Biostatistical Centre
School of Public Health
Catholic University of Leuven

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