Re: a couple of gripes
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- Subject: [mg29773] Re: a couple of gripes
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 01:00:17 -0400 (EDT)
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Joshua,
Re the first example: we do have
Integrate[f[x]*DiracDelta[x-y],{x,-Infinity,Infinity}]
f[y]
Re the second example: problems are likely if the formal variable x is
also used for the mean.
A normal distribution with zero standard deviation zero seems also to be
related to DiracDelta function.
Allan
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"Joshua A. Solomon" <J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> When I evaluate
> Integrate[f[x]*If[x==y,1,0],{x,-Infinity,Infinity}]
> I don't get
> f[y].
>
> When I evaluate
> PDF[NormalDistribution[x,0],x]
> I don't get
> 1.
>
> js
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