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EmpiricalDistribution bug

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• Subject: [mg122947] EmpiricalDistribution bug
• From: Mark Fisher <particlefilter at gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:22:10 -0500 (EST)
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Here is a (bad) bug involving EmpriicalDistribution:

PDF[EmpiricalDistribution[{1}], 1]

produces error messages and returns

Boole[{1}[[GeometricFunctions`BinarySearch[{{1}, "Sorted"}, 1]]] ==
   1] {1}[[GeometricFunctions`BinarySearch[{{1}, "Sorted"}, 1]]]

Here is an (awkward) workaround:

PDF[EmpiricalDistribution[{1}], x] /. x -> 1

which returns 1.

I have submitted this to support at wolfram.com, but I'm hoping someone
lurking from wolfram will look into this and figure out a code patch
that can be applied right away. Thanks.

--Mark

"8.0 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) (October 7, 2011)"

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