[R] Hist & kernel density estimates

[David Winsemius]

On Aug 19, 2009, at 11:34 AM, indranil basu wrote:

> Hi,
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> Thanks and Regards.
> - Indranil Basu,
> Bangalore, India
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:01 PM, maram salem <marammagdysalem at yahoo.com 
> >wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>> Attached are the codes of a histogram & a kernel density estimate  
>> and the
>> output they produced.
>>
>> In fact the variable q is a vector of 1000 simulated values; that  
>> is I
>> generated 1000 samples from the pareto distribution, from each  
>> sample I
>> calculated the value of q ( a certain fn in the sample  
>> observations), and
>> thus I was left with 1000 values of q and I don't know the  
>> distribution of
>> q.
>>
>> Hence, I used the attached codes for histogram and kernel density
>> estimation toestimate the density of q.
>>
>> But what I'm really intersed in is to estimate the probability that  
>> q is
>> greater than a certain value , for ex.,P(q>11000), using the density
>> estimates I obtained.
>> Could u help me with a fn or some document to do this?
>> Thank u so much
>>
>> Maram
>>
>>

David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT