[R] Bionomial and possion

[peter dalgaard]

On Aug 28, 2012, at 10:43 , quantum wrote:

> Make a plot in R where you compare the probability distributions for the
> Binomial distributions with N=1000 trials and succes probability 0.005 and
> the Possion Distribution with rate lambda=5.
> 
> My answer is 
> 
> b<-binom(x, 1000, 0.005, log = FALSE)
> plot(b)
> 
> p<-dpois(x, lambda, log = FALSE)
> plot(p)
> 
> *Is this the right way to solve the problem?*
> 

Not quite, but there's a no-homework policy on this list.

Hints (violating the policy slightly...)

- Does the code actually run?
- Are the axes correct (what are the x values)?
- Wouldn't you want to have them in one plot frame for comparison?

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