[R] pmvnorm

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Sat May 14 20:50:03 CEST 2005


On Sat, 14 May 2005, Dimitri Joe wrote:

> pmvnorm(lo=c(-Inf,-Inf), up=c(Inf,Inf), mean=c(0,0) )
>
> should give me "1", right? But it doens't - it giver me "0".
> Would someone help me, please?

Yes, but pmvnorm is in package 'mvtnorm' (uncredited here) so please 
discuss this with the package maintainer (Cc:ed here).

Extreme cases are often overlooked: I have this past week corrected 
several in R itself (so please do report them to the appropriate person). 
For now, please use something like

> In <- 1e100
> pmvnorm(lo=c(-In,-In), up=c(In,In), mean=c(0,0) )
[1] 1

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