I suggest you review your stat101 text: A cdf is between 0 and 1, not a pdf, which is a **density** function.
> dnorm(0, sd=.01) [1] 39.89423 -- Bert On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Noah Silverman <noahsilver...@ucla.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I’m seeing some strange behavior from the dbeta() function in R. > > For example: > >> dbeta(0.0001, .4, .6 ) > [1] 76.04555 > > > How is it possible to get a PDF that is greater than 1?? > > Am I doing something wrong here, or is this a quirk of R. > > Thanks, > > -- > Noah Silverman, M.S., C.Phil > UCLA Department of Statistics > 8117 Math Sciences Building > Los Angeles, CA 90095 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 ______________________________________________ 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.