Re: EmpiricalDistribution bug
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- Subject: [mg123012] Re: EmpiricalDistribution bug
- From: Mark Fisher <particlefilter at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:37:45 -0500 (EST)
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On Nov 19, 6:55 am, Andrzej Kozlowski <a... at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote:
> There is also another less awkward workaround:
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> In[41]:= PDF[EmpiricalDistribution[{1}]][1]
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> Out[41]= 1
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> Note that
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> PDF[EmpiricalDistribution[{1}]]
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> returns a pure function.
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> Andrzej Kozlowski
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> On 18 Nov 2011, at 12:22, Mark Fisher wrote:
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> > Here is a (bad) bug involving EmpriicalDistribution:
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> > PDF[EmpiricalDistribution[{1}], 1]
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> > produces error messages and returns
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> > Boole[{1}[[GeometricFunctions`BinarySearch[{{1}, "Sorted"}, 1]]] ==
> > 1] {1}[[GeometricFunctions`BinarySearch[{{1}, "Sorted"}, 1]]]
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> > Here is an (awkward) workaround:
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> > PDF[EmpiricalDistribution[{1}], x] /. x -> 1
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> > which returns 1.
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> > I have submitted this to supp... 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.
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> > --Mark
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> > "8.0 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) (October 7, 2011)"
Excellent!
- References:
- EmpiricalDistribution bug
- From: Mark Fisher <particlefilter@gmail.com>
- EmpiricalDistribution bug