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Re: Position

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  • Subject: [mg119223] Re: Position
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
  • Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 19:31:07 -0400 (EDT)

You are using a pure function as your second argument but you should use a 
pattern:

Position[data, x_ /; x > 0.95]

or

Position[data, _?(# > 0.95 &)]


Andrzej Kozlowski


On 25 May 2011, at 11:54, Joerg Schroeder wrote:

> Dear Group,
>
> I don't understand the following:
>
> I have a list of data and want to find the position of special elements:
>
> data=Table[CDF[BinomialDistribution[150,0.3],k],{k,0,150}]
>
> Position[data,#>=0.95&]
>
> With this I get {} (null set) as an answer, whereas for example Select gives the answer I expect.
>
> Select[data,#>=0.95&]
>
> Do I do something wrong with Position?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jorg Schroder
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