Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My copy of the CRC standard mathematical tables give 0.0721, without > citation. > > > Could two algorithms ``reasonably'' disagree in the 4th decimal > > place? > > One possible source for this error (if it is an error), would be someone > rounding to 5 places giving 0.07215, then rounding again to 4 places. > Is that reasonable?
Wouldn't be surprised. I'm using an introductory textbook that has qnorm(.95) as alternatingly 1.64 and 1.65 in its tables, where the latter fairly clearly comes from rounding of 1.645 instead of 1.644854. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
