[Rd] An extreme quantile of the geometric distribution
michael.baudin at contrib.scilab.org
michael.baudin at contrib.scilab.org
Thu Jun 28 22:49:34 CEST 2012
Hi,
With R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) on Windows, I computed the p=1.e-20
quantile of the geometric distribution with parameter prob=0.1.
> qgeom(1.e-20,0.1)
[1] -1
But this is not possible, since X=0,1,2,...
I guess that this might be a bug in the quantile function, which should
use the log1p function, instead of the naive formula.
Am I correct ?
Best regards,
Michaël
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