Re: Plot bug?
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- Subject: [mg6366] [mg6366] Re: [mg6354] Plot bug?
- From: "Preferred Customer" <sherman.reed at worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:53:47 -0500 (EST)
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Brad,
your code failed on 2.2.3 and 3.0 for me also, but when I changed the
Ln command to Log, the code worked fine on both. As far as I could see
the plots were identical.
sherman reed
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> From: Brad Miller <bmiller at illigal.ge.uiuc.edu>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: [mg6366] [mg6366] [mg6354] Plot bug?
> Date: Thursday, March 13, 1997 12:20 AM
>
> Hi,
> I am running the new version of mathematica (3.0), and some
> code that worked under the old version (2.x?) is not working.
>
> pseudo-mathematica session
> *****************************************************
> 1> Needs["Statistics`ContinuousDistributions`"]
>
> 2> PopRatio[pratio_]:=
> Module[{p}, p=CDF[NormalDistribution[0,1],pratio];
> - 2 pratio / Ln[(1-p)/p]
> ]
>
> 3> Plot[PopRatio[x],{x,.000001,.7}]
>
> Errors: "Plot::plnr : PopRatio[pratio] is not a machine-size real
> number at pratio = 0.0283978535340494791"
> and many other points also say not a machine-size real number
> *****************************************************
>
>
> Doing a PopRatio[0.0283978535340494791] on the reported bad number
> produces the correct PopRatio return value - it does not blow up. So,
> I'm surmising the problem is in the Plot cmd?
>
> This exact fn worked in mathematica 2.x - result should be a plot from
> around 1.26 to 1.2 - there are no discontinuities in the plot.
>
> Any suggestions on how to get PopRatio to plot correctly?
>
>
> thanks,
> Brad
>
>
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