On 02 Jan 2015, at 04:05 , Mike Miller <mbmille...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > ...but why are we seeing errors so much bigger than the machine precision? > Why does it change at 2? Because relative errors in the one-thousands part are roughly a thousand times bigger than errors in the number itself? Put differently: the 1.136868e-13 error is an absolute error on 1003, not on 3 -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
