Are all your numbers positive? If yes, have you considered using
logarithms?
I would guess it is quite rare for people to compute likelihoods.
Instead I think most people use log(likelihoods). Most of the
probability functions in R have an option of returning the logarithms.
Hope this helps.
Spencer
joaks1 wrote:
I need to perform some calculations with some extremely small numbers (i.e.
likelihood values on the order of 1.0E-16,000). Even when using the
double() function, R is rounding these values to zero. Is there any way to
get R to deal with such small numbers?
For example, I would like to be able to calculate e^-10000 (i.e.
exp(-10000)) without the result being rounded to zero.
I know I can do it in Mathematica, but I would prefer to use R if I can.
Any help would be appreciated!
Many Thanks in Advance!
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