Given what she said, how does the procedure I suggested fail? (Always happy to be corrected).
-- Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 1:57 AM, Boris Steipe <boris.ste...@utoronto.ca> wrote: > Are you sure this is trivial? I have the impression the combination of an > ill-posed problem and digital representation of numbers might just create the > illusion that is so. > > B. > > > > >> On Apr 10, 2017, at 12:34 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Then it's trivial. Check values at the discontinuities and find the >> first where it's <0 at the left discontinuity and >0 at the right, if >> such exists. Then just use zero finding on that interval (or fit a >> line if everything's linear). If none exists, then just find the first >> discontinuity where it's > 0. >> >> Cheers, >> Bert >> >> >> Bert Gunter >> >> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along >> and sticking things into it." >> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 5:38 PM, li li <hannah....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi Burt, >>> Yes, the function is monotone increasing and points of discontinuity are >>> all known. >>> They are all numbers between 0 and 1. Thanks very much! >>> Hanna >>> >>> >>> 2017-04-09 16:55 GMT-04:00 Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com>: >>>> >>>> Details matter! >>>> >>>> 1. Are the points of discontinuity known? This is critical. >>>> >>>> 2. Can we assume monotonic increasing, as is shown? >>>> >>>> >>>> -- Bert >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Bert Gunter >>>> >>>> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along >>>> and sticking things into it." >>>> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:28 PM, li li <hannah....@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Dear all, >>>>> For a piecewise function F similar to the attached graph, I would like >>>>> to >>>>> find >>>>> inf{x| F(x) >=0}. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I tried to uniroot. It does not seem to work. Any suggestions? >>>>> Thank you very much!! >>>>> Hanna >>>>> >>>>> ______________________________________________ >>>>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.