[Rd] qgamma with first argument 1
J. Hosking
jh910 at juno.com
Sat Jul 9 21:27:00 CEST 2005
> qgamma(1,1.1)
[1] Inf
as expected. But for shape parameter between 0.16 and 1:
> qgamma(1,.5)
[1] NaN
Warning message:
NaNs produced in: qgamma(p, shape, scale, lower.tail, log.p)
and for shape parameter 0.16 or less:
> qgamma(1,.1)
[1] 99.42507
Arguments close to 1 give approximately correct results:
> qgamma(1-1e-15,.5)
[1] 32.05055
> qgamma(1-1e-15,.1)
[1] 28.8129
R version is the R 2.1.1 binary from CRAN:
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch i386
os mingw32
system i386, mingw32
status
major 2
minor 1.1
year 2005
month 06
day 20
language R
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