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Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:17 AM, li li <hannah....@gmail.com> wrote: > I have the joint distribution of three discrete random variables z1, z2 and > z3 which is captured by "z" > and "prob" as described below. > > For example, the probability for z1=0.46667, z2=-1 and z3=-1 is 2.752e-13. > Also, the probability adds up to 1. > >> head(z) z1 z2 z3 > [1,] -0.46667 -1.0000 -1.0000 > [2,] -0.33333 -0.9333 -0.9333 > [3,] -0.20000 -0.8667 -0.8667 > [4,] -0.06667 -0.8000 -0.8000 > [5,] 0.06667 -0.7333 -0.7333 > [6,] 0.20000 -0.6667 -0.6667> prob[1:5][1] 2.752e-13 3.210e-12 > 1.348e-11 2.656e-11 2.656e-11> sum(prob)[1] 1 > > > I want to put the distribution into a joint probability table. I use the > following code. But the probability no longer adds up to 1. > >> z1 <- sort(unique(z[,1])); z2 <- sort(unique(z[,2])); z3 <- >> sort(unique(z[,3]))> P <- array(0, dim=c(length(z1),length(z2),length(z3)), >> dimnames=list(A=z1, H=z2, M=z3))> > for (i in 1:(dim(z)[1])){+ ind <- >> z[i,]+ P[dimnames(P)$A==ind[1], dimnames(P)$H==ind[2], >> dimnames(P)$M==ind[3]] <- prob[i] + }> sum(P)[1] 37.5 > > > The problem is when we look z1 as below, there are lot of repeated values. > >> unique(z[,1]) [1] -0.46667 -0.33333 -0.20000 -0.06667 0.06667 0.20000 >> 0.33333 0.46667 -0.53333 -0.40000 > [11] -0.26667 -0.13333 0.00000 0.13333 0.26667 0.40000 0.53333 > -0.60000 -0.06667 0.06667 > [21] 0.60000 -0.66667 -0.13333 0.13333 0.66667 -0.73333 -0.60000 > -0.20000 0.20000 0.60000 > [31] 0.73333 -0.80000 -0.53333 -0.26667 0.26667 0.53333 0.80000 > -0.86667 -0.46667 -0.33333 > [41] 0.33333 0.46667 0.86667 -0.93333 -0.40000 0.40000 0.93333 > -1.00000 -0.46667 -0.33333 > [51] 0.33333 0.46667 1.00000 -0.53333 -0.26667 0.26667 0.53333 > -0.20000 0.20000 -0.66667 > [61] -0.13333 0.13333 0.66667 -0.73333 -0.06667 0.06667 0.73333 > -0.20000 0.20000 -0.13333 > [71] 0.13333 -0.06667 0.06667 -0.06667 0.06667 > > > > Is there a way to fix this? Any idea and suggestions? Thanks very much!! > > Hanna > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.