From dmurdoch at pair.com  Tue Feb  3 12:46:35 2004
From: dmurdoch at pair.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Tue Feb  3 12:47:16 2004
Subject: [Rd] request for comments --- package "distr" --- S4 Classes for
	Distributions
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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 09:45:52 +0000, Matthias Kohl
<Matthias.Kohl@uni-bayreuth.de> wrote:

>I think the most common example is the Cantor distribution.

That's the most common 1-dimensional singular distribution, but higher
dimensional distributions are much more commonly singular.  For
example, mixed continuous-discrete distributions, and other
distributions whose support is of lower dimension than the sample
space, e.g. X ~ N(0,1), Y=X.

Duncan Murdoch


[Rd] request for comments --- package "distr" --- S4 Classes for Distributions
Duncan Murdoch