Re: st: scale errors in kdensity

[Partha Deb <partha.deb@hunter.cuny.edu>]

Densities are not probabilities - they can exceed one.  To confirm this, plug 
in some values into the normal density formula with small values of sigma.

Hope this helps.

Partha

yli7@worldbank.org wrote:

> I met a strange problem when using kdensity and hope someone could help me.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> When i use kdensity to draw density graph of my data, the scale of the
> probablity excees one.  Is this the problem of the command or anything?
>
>
> Best,
>
> Yue Li
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