On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote:>
> As Charles Berry told you when this was posted to R-help, it looks as
> though it is Mathematica that is inaccurate. For example, I would
> expect this plot to be smooth, and it is not in either R or Mathematica,
> but R is at least monotone:
I did check this on Maple by integrating the density function and got
about 11-12 digits accuracy at df=88. I also tried replacing 1e-4 with an
exactly-representable number (3/32768), with a similar accuracy level.
pbeta() claims 14-digit accuracy and is called by pt() with 1/(1+x^2/n) as
its argument. I would have thought that the 1/(1+x^2/n) could easily be
responsible for this sort of accuracy loss when x=1e-4. If so, it may not
be easy to improve.
-thomas
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