see ?polygon function.

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Henrique Dallazuanna
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On 01/08/07, Nair, Murlidharan T <mnair@iusb.edu> wrote:
>
> Indeed, this is what I wanted, I figured it from the function you and
> Mark pointed me. Thank you both.
>
> I am trying to plot it to illustrate the point and I tried this
>
> plot(function(x) dt(x, df = 9), -5, 5, ylim = c(0, 0.5), main="t -
> Density", yaxs="i")
>
> Is there an easy way to shade the area under the curve?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> Bill.Venables@csiro.au
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 3:18 PM
> To: bolker@ufl.edu; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] t-distribution
>
> Well, is "t = 1.11" all that accurate in the first place?  :-)
>
> In fact, reading beween the lines of the original enquiry, what the
> person probably wanted was something like
>
> ta <- pt(-1.11, 9) + pt(1.11, 9, lower.tail = FALSE)
>
> which is the two-sided t-test tail area.
>
> The teller of the parable will usually leave some things unexplained...
>
> Bill.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Ben Bolker
> Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2007 4:57 AM
> To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] t-distribution
>
> <Bill.Venables <at> csiro.au> writes:
>
> >
> > for the upper tail:
> >
> > > 1-pt(1.11, 9)
> > [1] 0.1478873
> >
>    wouldn't
>      pt(1.11, 9, lower.tail=FALSE)
>   be more accurate?
>
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