[R] returns from dnorm and dmvnorm

[Benilton Carvalho]

well, nobody said that the density must be smaller than 1, right? :-)

it's just the value of the normal density function at the point you  
asked. you may try doing that by hand and, with the correct math,  
you'll get the same thing.

b

On Feb 26, 2007, at 3:03 PM, A Hailu wrote:

> Hi All,
> Why would calls to dnorm and dmvnorm return values that are above  
> 1? For
> example,
>> dnorm(0.00003,mean=0, sd=0.1)
> [1] 3.989423
>
> This is happening on two different installations of R that I have.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Hailu