[R] joint probability distribution

Suzen, Mehmet msuzen at gmail.com
Fri Jan 25 22:30:06 CET 2013


Not sure what is your exact requirement but you can compute marginals
and conditional probabilities using 'prob' package of Prof. Kerns.

On 25 January 2013 22:15, Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas at sapo.pt> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> You need to be much more specific. What do you know about the distributions
> of X and Y? And about their joint distribution?
>
> If you suspect the joint distribution to be a bivariate normal try package
> mvtnorm with
>
> mu <- c(mean(x), mean(y))
> sigma <- cov(cbind(x, y))
>
>
> You can also try kernel density estimates:
>
> library(sos)
> findFn('kde')
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> Em 25-01-2013 18:13, eliza botto escreveu:
>
>>
>> Dear R family,
>> I want to calculate the joint probability (distribution) of two random
>> continuous variables X and Y.
>> Could to please tell me how to do it?Thanks in advance..
>> elisa
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