Dear all, I forgot to mention the values for the parameters in the first email.
u1 <- -3 u2 <- 4 alpha <- 0.05 p1 <- 0.15 Thank you very much. 2011/9/3 li li <hannah....@gmail.com> > Dear all, > I have the following problem with the uniroot function. I want to find > roots for the fucntion "Fp2" which is defined as below. > > > Fz <- function(z){0.8*pnorm(z)+p1*pnorm(z-u1)+(0.2-p1)*pnorm(z-u2)} > > > Fp <- function(t){(1-Fz(abs(qnorm(1-(t/2)))))+(Fz(-abs(qnorm(1-(t/2)))))} > > > Fp2 <- function(t) {Fp(t)-0.8*t/alpha} > > > > th <- uniroot(Fp2, lower =0, upper =1, > > tol = 0.0001)$root > > > The result is 0 as shown below. > > > > th > [1] 0 > > > However, there should be a root between 0.00952 and 0.00955, since the > function values are of opposite signs as below. > > > > Fp2(0.00952) > [1] 2.264272e-05 > > Fp2(0.00955) > [1] -0.0003657404 > > Can any one give me a hand here? Thanks a lot. > Hannah > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.