[R] Need help to understand integrate function

[Ravi Varadhan]

Try this:

options(digits=10)

> integrate(f=powerLaw2, lower=0, upper=Inf, l1=1.8980185, l2=-0.0804259, c0=1, t0=259.78, rel.tol=1.e-10)
0.01089019946 with absolute error < 3.7e-11


Ravi.
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Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University

Ph. (410) 502-2619
email: rvaradhan at jhmi.edu


----- Original Message -----
From: R_help Help <rhelpacc at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 9:44 pm
Subject: [R] Need help to understand integrate function
To: r-help at r-project.org


> Hi,
>  
>  I'm running into a wall when trying to use the integrate function. I
>  have the following setting:
>  
>  powerLaw2 <- function(x,l1,l2,c0,t0) {
>  
>     idx <- which(x <= 0);
>     if (length(idx) > 0) {
>        x[idx] <- 0;
>     }
>  
>     xl <- (-l1+l2)*log(x/t0);
>     L <- log(c0)-l1*log(x)-log(1+exp(xl));
>     L <- exp(L);
>     return(L);
>  }
>  
>  plCDF2 <- function(x,l1,l2,c0,t0) {
>  
>     print(c(l1,l2,c0,t0));
>     cdf <- integrate(f=powerLaw2,lower=x,upper=Inf,l1=l1,l2=l2,c0=c0,t0=t0,stop.on.error=T);
>     return(cdf$value);
>  
>  }
>  
>  I know that as long as my l1 > 1 and l2 < 1 the integration above
>  should converge. However, this doesn't seem to be the case when I call
>  integrate function with the following parameter:
>  
>  
>  Browse[1]> integrate(f=powerLaw2,lower=1e-09,upper=Inf,l1=1.8980185,l2=-0.0804259,c0=1,t0=259.78,stop.on.error=T)
>  failed with message 'the integral is probably divergent'
>  
>  Would you please shed some light? And how could I prevent this
>  situation? Thank you.
>  
>  Rgds,
>  
>  Rob
>  
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