[R] variance?,...

Rostislav Matl
Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:04:49 -0000

hi

I'm learning R and making some examples.
One of them is that for given distribution
I show density function, distribution function
expected value and variance(?).
I know
EX <- function(xval,xprob) sum( (xval*xprob) );
where xval is vector of values and xprob vector of probabalities,
but
DX <- function(xval,xprob) EX((xval^2),xprob) - (EX(xval,xprob))^2;
doesn't work as I thought.
I've looked intto FAQs and archives but my question
is probably too simple.
Can somebody tell me what's wrong on my example ?
And one more question: when I'm plotting density:
plot(x, dnorm(x,as.double(mu),as.double(sigma_square)), style );
on interval x I get relatively small number of probabilities.
I've spent long time searching trough docs to find how
to change it but didn't found it. So please tell me how.

thanks for replies
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