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Re: Plotting Problem

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  • Subject: [mg17491] Re: Plotting Problem
  • From: Allan Hayes <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
  • Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 01:44:28 -0400
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Bruce W. Colletti <bcolletti at mail.utexas.edu> wrote in message
news:7h4jn5$ejs at smc.vnet.net...
> Re Mathematica 3.0 (Windows 95).
>
> In response to...
>
> <<Statistics`ContinuousDistributions`
> Plot[PDF[NormalDistribution[0,1],x],{x,-2,2}]
>
> ...the message appears "plot: plnr:  PDF[NormalDistribution[0,1],x] is not
> a machine-size real number at x = 0.1696...?"
>
> What am I doing wrong?  Everything works well (a graph is produced) for:
>
> <<Statistics`ContinuousDistributions`
> Plot[CDF[GammaDistribution[3,1],x],{x,0,10}]
>
>
> Why does Mathematica fail to graph in one but not the other?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bruce

Bruce,

It works fine for me on Windows 98 with

{$Version,$ReleaseNumber}
{"Microsoft Windows 3.0 (April 25, 1997)",1}

Allan

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