[R] fBasics package: dnig

[Yihui Xie]

Raj has mixed up the concept of "density function" with "CDF"
(Cumulative Distribution Function) - the former one doesn't need to be
smaller than 1, while the latter one is certainly no greater than 1.

Yihui

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Uwe Ligges
<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>
>
> Rajdeep Das wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to calculate probability density of normal inverse gaussian
>> distribution. I am using dnig function of fBasics package. However, I am
>> getting following result. The density at x = 0.003042866 is:
>>
>>> dnig(x= 0.003042866, alpha=5.184868, beta= 0.11841, delta= 0.06038513,
>>> mu= -0.0003520626)
>>
>> [1] 6.550251
>>
>> I am not sure why it is 6.550251. Can anyone tell me why density is more
>> than 1?  Thank you for your time.
>
>
> Without looking closer at the specific distribution: Why shouldn't it be
> more than 1? The density at x=0.25 of a uniform(a=0, b=0.5) distribution is
> 2 - hopefully.
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>
>> --Raj
>>

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