[Rd] qpois documentation (PR#13743)

Jerry.Lewis at biogenidec.com Jerry.Lewis at biogenidec.com
Tue Jun 2 13:10:09 CEST 2009


Full_Name: Jerry W. Lewis
Version: 2.9.0
OS: Windows XP Professional
Submission from: (NULL) (166.186.168.103)


Quantiles for discrete distributions are consitently implemented, but
inconsitently documented.  Help for qpois incorrectly states in the Details
section that
  "The quantile is left continuous: qgeom(q, prob) is the largest integer x such
that P(X <= x) < q."
which disagrees with the implementation; it should read
  "The quantile is defined as the smallest value x such that F(x) >= p, where F
is the distribution function."
Also, this definition should be added to Help for qhyper.



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