[R] Integrate(dnorm) with different mean and standard deviation help

Pascal Oettli kridox at ymail.com
Tue Jul 24 05:59:01 CEST 2012


Hello,

Yes, I should learn to read.

Regards


Le 24/07/2012 11:54, Peter Ehlers a écrit :
> On 2012-07-23 19:48, Pascal Oettli wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Maybe the following could help:
>>
>>   > f <- function(x) dnorm(x, mean=2, sd=1)
>>   > integrate(f, -1.96, 1.96)
>> 0.4840091 with absolute error < 1.4e-12
>
> Or you could note the '...' argument indicated on the help page:
>
>    integrate(dnorm, lower = -1.96, upper = 1.96,
>              mean = 2, sd = 1)
>
> Peter Ehlers
>
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>>
>> Le 24/07/2012 11:23, FJ M a écrit :
>>>
>>> I'm trying to provide different parameters to the integrate function
>>> for various probability functions. I'm using dnorm as the simplest
>>> example here. For instance integrate(dnorm, -1.96, 1.96) produces the
>>> correct answer for a normal distribution with mean 0 and standard
>>> deviation 1. I've tried two ways to use mean=2.0 and standard
>>> deviation 1, but with no luck. The examples follow.
>>>
>>>
>>>> integrate(dnorm, -1.96, 1.96)
>>> 0.9500042 with absolute error < 1e-11
>>>> mean = 2.0
>>>> sd = 1.0
>>>> integrate(dnorm, -1.96, 1.96)
>>> 0.9500042 with absolute error < 1e-11
>>>> integrate(dnorm(mean=2.0,sd=1.0), -1.96, 1.96)
>>> Error in .Internal(dnorm(x, mean, sd, log)) : 'x' is missing
>>> Calls: integrate -> match.fun -> dnorm
>>> Execution halted
>>>
>>> How do I change the built in mean=0 and standard deviation=1 for
>>> dnorm using integrate?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Frank
>>> Chicago, IL
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>>>
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