[R] how to include integrate in a function that can be solved with uniroot?

[R. Michael Weylandt]

You need to explicitly pass th to your function with the ... argument
of integrate.

E <- function(th){
    integrate(function(x,th) x*g(x, th), 0, Inf, th)$value
}

Also, it's value, not Value, which might be producing errors of another sort.

Michael

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Gerrit Draisma <gdraisma at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Thanks Michael,
>
> I see now how to include integrate function in the EV function.
> And apologies:
> I now realize that my code was sloppy.
> I intended to write
>> E<- function(th) {
>> +      integrate( f = function(x,th){x*g(x,th)},
>> +      0,Inf)$Value}
>> E(1/10)
> But that does not work either,
>
> Gerrit.
>
> Op 11/14/2011 2:50 PM, R. Michael Weylandt schreef:
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> EV<- function(lamb){
>>      fnc<- function(x) x * dexp(x, lamb)
>>      integrate(fnc, 0, Inf)$value
>> }
>>
>> Your problem is that there's nothing to translate th to lambda in your
>> code for E.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Gerrit Draisma<gdraisma at xs4all.nl>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hallo,
>>> I am trying to define expectation as an integral
>>> and use uniroot to find the distribution parameter
>>> for a given expectation.
>>>
>>> However I fail to understand how to define properly
>>> the functions involved and pass the parameters correctly.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help me out?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Gerrit Draisma.
>>>
>>>
>>> This what I tried:
>>> =======
>>>>
>>>> # exponential density
>>>> g<- function(x,lambda){ lambda *exp(-lambda*x) }
>>>>
>>>> # expectation with lambda=1/10
>>>> integrate(f = function(x,lambda=1/10) {x*g(x,lambda)}, 0,Inf)
>>>
>>> 10 with absolute error<  6.7e-05
>>>>
>>>> # *how to write this as a function?*
>>>> E<- function(lambda) {
>>>
>>> +      integrate( f = function(x,th){x*g(x,lambda)},
>>> +      0,Inf)$Value}
>>>>
>>>> E(1/10)
>>>
>>> NULL
>>>>
>>>> # *how to include this function in uniroot to find lambda*
>>>> # *for a given expectation?*
>>>> mu<- 10
>>>> uniroot(f<-function(th){E(th)-mu},lower=1,upper=100)
>>>
>>> Error in if (is.na(f.lower)) stop("f.lower = f(lower) is NA") :
>>>  argument is of length zero
>>>>
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