[R] densities greater than 1 for values within an (0, 1) intervall

[David Winsemius]

The same way you interpret densities less than one?
On Jan 20, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Paul Ramer wrote:

>
> How does one then interpret kernel density distributions with values  
> greater
> than one?

The same way you interpret densities less than one?

density != probability

>
> My output from the density function.
> ---
> density(delt.m[[1]][,6], na.rm=TRUE)
>
> Call:
> 	density.default(x = delt.m[[1]][, 6], na.rm = TRUE)
>
> Data: delt.m[[1]][, 6] (171 obs.);	Bandwidth 'bw' = 0.004501
>
>       x                  y
> Min.   :-0.05211   Min.   : 0.00586
> 1st Qu.:-0.02177   1st Qu.: 0.43632
> Median : 0.00856   Median : 3.08833
> Mean   : 0.00856   Mean   : 8.23366
> 3rd Qu.: 0.03889   3rd Qu.:14.97542
> Max.   : 0.06923   Max.   :30.04107

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT