Probabilities can't be greater than 1 but densities can.
On 3/29/06, Taka Matzmoto <sell_mirage_ne at hotmail.com>
wrote:> Hi R users
> I have a question for yaxis for plot(density(...)).
>
>
plot(density(rnorm(1000000,.25,0.0701361)),xlim=c(-.5,1),col="red",xlab="",main="")
>
> I expected that yaxis is a probabilty (from 0 to 1) but it wasn't
>
> I got 1 to 5 or 6 on yaxis.
>
> How do I interpret yaxis values ?
>
> Thanks
>
> TM
>
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