gamlss.dist (version 4.3-4)

BI: Binomial distribution for fitting a GAMLSS

Description

The BI() function defines the binomial distribution, a one parameter family distribution, for a gamlss.family object to be used in GAMLSS fitting using the function gamlss(). The functions dBI, pBI, qBI and rBI define the density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the binomial, BI(), distribution.

Usage

BI(mu.link = "logit")
dBI(x, bd = 1, mu = 0.5, log = FALSE)
pBI(q, bd = 1, mu = 0.5, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
qBI(p, bd = 1, mu = 0.5, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
rBI(n, bd = 1, mu = 0.5)

Arguments

mu.link

Defines the mu.link, with "logit" link as the default for the mu parameter. Other links are "probit" and "cloglog"'(complementary log-log)

x

vector of (non-negative integer) quantiles

mu

vector of positive probabilities

bd

vector of binomial denominators

p

vector of probabilities

q

vector of quantiles

n

number of random values to return

log, log.p

logical; if TRUE, probabilities p are given as log(p)

lower.tail

logical; if TRUE (default), probabilities are P[X <= x],="" otherwise,="" p[x=""> x]

Value

• returns a gamlss.family object which can be used to fit a binomial distribution in the gamlss() function.

Details

Definition file for binomial distribution. $$f(y|\mu)=\frac{\Gamma(n+1)}{\Gamma(y+1) \Gamma{(n-y+1)}} \mu^y (1-\mu)^{(n-y)}$$ for $y=0,1,2,...,n$ and $0

References

Rigby, R. A. and Stasinopoulos D. M. (2005). Generalized additive models for location, scale and shape,(with discussion), Appl. Statist., 54, part 3, pp 507-554.

Stasinopoulos D. M., Rigby R.A. and Akantziliotou C. (2006) Instructions on how to use the GAMLSS package in R. Accompanying documentation in the current GAMLSS help files, (see also http://www.gamlss.org/).

Stasinopoulos D. M. Rigby R.A. (2007) Generalized additive models for location scale and shape (GAMLSS) in R. Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 23, Issue 7, Dec 2007, http://www.jstatsoft.org/v23/i07.

See Also

gamlss.family, ZABI, ZIBI

Examples

BI()# gives information about the default links for the Binomial distribution 
# data(aep)   
# library(gamlss)
# h<-gamlss(y~ward+loglos+year, family=BI, data=aep)  
# plot of the binomial distribution
curve(dBI(x, mu = .5, bd=10), from=0, to=10, n=10+1, type="h")
tN <- table(Ni <- rBI(1000, mu=.2, bd=10))
r <- barplot(tN, col='lightblue')