# For-loop doesn't work [closed]

I need some help. I try to run the code below, but at the end I1 = 0, I2 = 0 (the same as their initial values). I'm not sure which part of my code is wrong.

Q = 1415; μ = 1000; σ = 500;
double dx;
double x;
double fx;
double fxplusdx;
double I1;
double I2;
I1 = 0;
I2 = 0;
For[x = 0, x <= Q - dx, dx += 0.01,
fx =
PDF[NormalDistribution[0, 1], (InverseCDF[NormalDistribution[μ, σ], x] - μ)/σ];
fxplusdx =
PDF[NormalDistribution[0, 1], (InverseCDF[NormalDistribution[μ, σ], x + dx] - μ)/σ];
I1 = I1 + 0.5*(x*fx + (x + dx)*fxplusdx)*dx;
I2 = I2 + 0.5*(fx + fxplusdx)*dx]
I1
I2

• It's hard to know where to start. "double" is not a mathematica command. Your For syntax is wrong (you use x=0 but then try to increment another variable dx, which is itself uninitialized). – bill s May 25 '17 at 1:11
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First of all there is nothing like double in Mathematica, you don't need to define the type of variable here.

I don't know what problem are you trying to solve, since you don't describe it, but I at least can point out absolute wrong parts of your code.

There is such a thing in Mathematica, called function, so you can parametrize, instead of hard-coding:

foo[Q_, μ_, σ_] := Module[{xxx},...]


With the body the code should look like:

foo[Q_, μ_, σ_] := Module[
{dx, x, fx, fxplusdx, I1 = 0, I2 = 0},

For[x = 0, x <= Q-dx, dx += 0.01,
fx = PDF[
NormalDistribution[0,
1], (InverseCDF[NormalDistribution[μ, σ],
x] - μ)/σ];

fxplusdx =
PDF[NormalDistribution[0,
1], (InverseCDF[NormalDistribution[μ, σ],
x + dx] - μ)/σ];

I1 = I1 + 0.5*(x*fx + (x + dx)*fxplusdx)*dx;

I2 = I2 + 0.5*(fx + fxplusdx)*dx
];

{I1, I2}
]


Besides not knowing what do you want to achieve here, I see following problems:

1. dx has to have initial value, if you want to use it in For[]
2. You have to be sure that you want to do ~150.000 iterations.