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2008 Mar 12
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Types of quadrature
Dear R-users I would like to integrate something like \int_k^\infty (1 - F(x)) dx, where F(.) is a cumulative distribution function. As mentioned in the "integrate" help-page: integrate(dnorm,0,20000) ## fails on many systems. This does not happen for an adaptive Simpson or Lobatto quadrature (cf. Matlab). Even though I am hardly familiar with numerical integration the implementation seems to be fairly straightforward. My questions: - Is this extension of the function "integrate" planned for upcoming versions of R? - Do there exist packages / workarounds? I'...