[Rd] lambda==0 in dpois() (PR#459)
Peter Dalgaard BSA
p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk
25 Feb 2000 20:46:40 +0100
bolker@zoo.ufl.edu writes:
> The nice new log=TRUE option in dpois appears to mess up the
> case where lambda=0 (I was trying to calculate the likelihood
> of a saturated model). Because the behavior is now always to
> calculate the probability in terms of exp(log(prob)), there's
> a test for lambda<=0 which really needs to be only lambda<0.
>
> dpois(0:5,0)
>
> ought to give
>
> 1 0 0 0 0
>
> but gives NaNs instead.
>
> Here's a patch to src/nmath/dpois.c that appears to work (although it could ? be more
> elegant).
Thanks. We may just be able to squeeze that one in before 1.0.0. But
shouldn't it return -Inf (ML_NEGINF) for the log case rather than NaN?
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