[Rd] pnorm

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

you should use the 'lower.tail' argument of pnorm(), e.g., check the 
following:

2 * (1 - pnorm(8.104474))
2 * pnorm(8.104474, lower.tail = FALSE)


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jing hua zhao" <jinghuazhao at hotmail.com>
To: <r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:00 PM
Subject: [Rd] pnorm


>
> Dear R list,
>
> I calculated a two-sided p values according to 
> 2*(1-pnorm(8.104474)), which gives  4.440892e-16. However, it 
> appears to be  5.30E-16 by a colleague and 5.2974E-16 from SAS. I 
> tried to get around with mvtnorm package but it turns out to be 
> using pnorm for univariate case. I should have missed some earlier 
> discussions, but for the moment is there any short answer for a 
> higher precision? Somehow these days, statistical geneticists are 
> infatuated with such tiny p values!
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
>
> Jing Hua
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