[R] Is this a bug in R1.21? (was: Goodness of fit ... NegBinomial)

[Thomas Lumley]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Mark Myatt wrote:

> Yudi,
> 
> Writes:
> 
> >Sorry, Mark, the program worked for Rw1011, but this is
> >what happened in Rw1021:
> >
> >> dnbinom(0:5,.9,.4)  
> >[1] 0.4383833 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000   #wrong!!
> >
> >while, the correct result from Rw1011 is:
> >>  dnbinom(0:5,.9,.4)
> >[1] 0.43838329 0.23672698 0.13493438 0.07826194 0.04578323 0.02692054
> >
> >I have added a corrected dnbinom() below, which makes the program
> >works  for Rw1021.
> 
> [Code and text of previous messages removed]
> 
> Thanks. That works a treat. Is this a bug in v1.21?

Yes. However it's been filed and fixed since yesterday.

	-thomas


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