From: Tristram Scott on 8 Feb 2010 12:45 darthshak <vishakadatta(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks a lot Tristam! I think Matt had already covered most of what I said. > I overlooked the fact that the normpdf argument takes std. dev as an > argument, and not variance. > > That said, thanks a lot for clearing up the stuff on the convolution. So > essentially, if I am interested only in the convolution between min(x) and > max(x), there is no harm in clipping right? As long as you are careful to not throw away any probability mass that should be fine. Be careful to keep track of what your new limits become. -- Dr Tristram J. Scott Energy Consultant |