[Rd] qbinom when probability is 1 (PR#5900)
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu Dec 18 15:57:44 MET 2003
The cases of prob=0 and prob=1 were specifically excluded in the code,
as well as n=0. I've added special-case code for all of these.
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 jonathan-cran at swintons.net wrote:
> Full_Name: Jonathan Swinton
> Version: 1.8.0
> OS: Windows 2000
> Submission from: (NULL) (193.132.159.34)
>
>
> Calling qbinom with a sample probability of 1 returns NaN
> > qbinom(p=0.95,size=10,prob=1)
> [1] NaN
>
> I believe that this is wrong and that qbinom(p,size,prob=1) should always be
> size for 0<p<=1.
>
> The documentation says that
>
> The quantile is defined as the smallest value x such that F(x) >=
> p, where F is the distribution function.
>
>
>
> Version:
> platform = i386-pc-mingw32
> arch = i386
> os = mingw32
> system = i386, mingw32
> status =
> major = 1
> minor = 8.0
> year = 2003
> month = 10
> day = 08
> language = R
>
> Windows 2000 Professional (build 2195) Service Pack 3.0
>
> Search Path:
> .GlobalEnv, package:lattice, package:Hmisc, package:XML, package:graph,
> package:methods, package:ctest, package:mva, package:modreg, package:nls,
> package:ts, Autoloads, package:base
>
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