Oh ok. Thanks very much. I will have to restrict to a shorter interval. Hanna
2018-02-06 14:33 GMT-05:00 Göran Broström <goran.brost...@umu.se>: > Hi Hanna, > > your function is essentially zero outside a short interval around 9. And > the help page states: "If the function is approximately constant (in > particular, zero) over nearly all its range it is possible that the result > and error estimate may be seriously wrong." > > You could try to integrate over a finite interval, say (7, 12). > > Göran Broström > > > On 2018-02-06 19:40, li li wrote: > >> Sorry. I meant in the previous email that the function h() is a monotone >> decreasing function. Thanks very much. >> >> 2018-02-06 13:32 GMT-05:00 li li <hannah....@gmail.com>: >> >> Hi all, >>> The function h below is a function of c and it should be a monotone >>> increasing function since the integrand is nonnegative and integral is >>> taken from c to infinity. However, as we can see from the plot, it is not >>> shown to be monotone. Something wrong with the usage of integrate >>> function? >>> Thanks so much for your help. >>> Hanna >>> >>> >>> >>> h <- function(c){ >>> g <- function(x){pnorm(x-8.8, mean=0.4, sd=0.3, >>> lower.tail=TRUE)*dnorm(x, mean=9,sd=0.15)} >>> integrate(g, lower=c, upper=Inf)$value} >>> >>> xx <- seq(-20,20,by=0.001) >>> y <- xx >>> for (i in 1:length(xx)){y[i] <- h(xx[i])} >>> plot(xx, y) >>> >>> >>> >> [[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/posti >> ng-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> [[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.