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Re: DiscreteUniformDistribution PDF isn't piecewise?

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  • Subject: [mg107681] Re: DiscreteUniformDistribution PDF isn't piecewise?
  • From: "richard.wesley.todd" <richard.wesley.todd at gmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:04:42 -0500 (EST)
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On Feb 22, 2:07 am, gekko <pfall... at gmail.com> wrote:
> However, even supposing this were a deliberate decision, it appears to
> be somewhat inconsistent with the equivalent definition for CDF, which
> uses Piecewise.

Right, it seems to me that they should act the same, even if it's not
what I was expecting.


> So, I would be inclined to agree with you that there is an issue there
> to be resolved. Have you fwded this on to WRI?

No, but I will, thanks.  I wanted to make sure I wasn't
misunderstanding the situation first.


> It's also interesting to note that, when given numeric arguments, the
> PDF function only returns non-zero values if the input is an Integer,
> thus:

I had not noticed that!  That's surprising as well.

Thank you,
Richard


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