[R-sig-teaching] Laplace Distribution

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Tue Apr 18 14:38:08 CEST 2017


>>>>> AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa <abouelmakarim1962 at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Tue, 18 Apr 2017 06:52:11 -0400 writes:

    > Dear All: good morning Suppose X has a Laplace
    > distribution with mean 105 and variance 100.


    > *How to compute the probability P(X > 100) using R.*

what has this to do with "teaching R / teaching statistics using R"?

It looks like a basic question about R or the availability of R
packages for "the" Laplace distribution.
...
which could also be answered by reading the Wikipedia page about
the Laplace distrib...

Martin



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