Try a simulation approach. vignette("rv") for more info. > set.seed(1) > library(rv) > x <- rvunif(10) > s <- simapply(x, sum) > mean(s > 4 & s < 6) mean sd 1% 2.5% 25% 50% 75% 97.5% 99% sims [1] 0.72 0.45 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2500
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Rory Winston <rory.wins...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Firstly , happy Christmas to R-Help! Secondly, I wonder if anyone can help > me with the following query: I am trying to reproduce some explicit > probability calculations performed in APPL (a Maple extension for > computational probability). For instance, in APPL, to compute the > probability that the sum of 10 iid uniform variables [0,1] will be between 4 > and 6, (i..e Pr( 4 < \sum_{i=1}^{10}X_i < 6)), I can type: > > X := UniformRV(0, 1); > Y := ConvolutionIID(X, 10); > CDF(Y,6) - CDF(Y,4); > > which gives the required probability .7222. Is there any way to perform > these type of calcuations in R in a general way? I realise that a lot of the > machinery behind these computations comes from Maple's symbolic engine, but > are there any R extensions for these kind of calculation? > > Cheers > Rory > > [[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. > ______________________________________________ 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.