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Re: [S] Strange behaviour of pbinom

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Subject: Re: [S] Strange behaviour of pbinom
From: Stephen Kaluzny <spk@statsci.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 08:40:16 -0700 (PDT)
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Eva Cantoni noted:

> is this strange behaviour of pbinom() known?
> (Splus Version 3.4 Release 1 for Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.3 : 1996)
> 
> > pbinom(100,1,0.5)
> [1] 1   # OK
> > pbinom(200,1,0.5)
> [1] -Inf #???

We are aware of this problem with pbinom and have fixed it in
S-PLUS 4.5 Release 2 for Windows and S-PLUS 5.0 for Unix.

Stephen Kaluzny
MathSoft
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