Re: Mathematica: Statistics Packages - Discrete & Continuous Distributions
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: Re: Mathematica: Statistics Packages - Discrete & Continuous Distributions
- From: "Prof. L. Seiford, IEOR, UMass, 413/545-1658" <SEIFORD at ecs.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1993 10:49:43 -0500
> PDF[ PoissonDistribution[1], {0,1} ]
>
> returns only some logical checking. The problem seems to be the { } since
>
> PDF[ PoissonDistribution[1], 1 ]
>
> is fine but
>
> PDF[ PoissonDistribution[1], {1} ]
>
> fails.
>
> Does anyone have a fix for this? Many thanks
One "fix" is to define p(x) to be the Poisson pdf
In[26]:=
p[x_] := PDF[ PoissonDistribution[1], x ]
Then apply the function to your list, i.e.,
In[30]:=
p/@{0,1} to get
Out[30]=
1 1
{-, -}
E E
--larry