Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-commons-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 21109 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2008 02:47:59 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 1 Sep 2008 02:47:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 83999 invoked by uid 500); 1 Sep 2008 02:47:54 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-commons-user-archive@commons.apache.org Received: (qmail 83929 invoked by uid 500); 1 Sep 2008 02:47:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@commons.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: "Commons Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list user@commons.apache.org Received: (qmail 83918 invoked by uid 99); 1 Sep 2008 02:47:54 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:47:54 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.0 required=10.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of ted.dunning@gmail.com designates 209.85.146.182 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.146.182] (HELO wa-out-1112.google.com) (209.85.146.182) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:46:57 +0000 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m34so1280282wag.10 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:47:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=iiU9GMDLtWs90vqIIQDarfrj0Rkydesu2p2Q+9kHREg=; b=rwAqS3n7IXEOi1m3Z8T9nFGpJr1KAciboFmB/KK1ys2uExHj3rE1Q3tOYRO2mM2asi cJ1fSTFXRCsrswvrFmQpucn2/dm5A6D16TYOaHxMz0DEjYsp+1i43nv34vBa2dbhLa2H cUgWJa7SUWs7U/cr6k7Ce+nZcciu4cSUWVQHY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=ZRMe24/ZYV1yq1xxx7u7N6VIbh3K/DQtvioKB4H+k/veF3UM+26rKAwCILJ8y+FGGJ YFrIotV3PxcrpfL25qZNeljwPqIRxaFmd0J6KkAYIsrFck4o7+aPAkWfgYYpEVFDgcAo eSA//tW9xYUZuoi+zOy9XXxGLtq3vynRpGdGc= Received: by 10.114.124.12 with SMTP id w12mr4864537wac.210.1220237248182; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:47:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.55.16 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:47:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:47:28 -0700 From: "Ted Dunning" To: user@commons.apache.org Subject: [math] Why do continuous distributions not have a density method MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_15541_14653440.1220237248168" X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org ------=_Part_15541_14653440.1220237248168 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I note that the continuous distributions in the commons math package don't have an entry point to compute the probability density function. Clearly some distributions have some points where the PDF is undefined, but why is there no method for all of the distributions where it is defined? Is this a religious thing? -- ted ------=_Part_15541_14653440.1220237248168--