gamlss.dist (version 4.3-4)

SICHEL: The Sichel distribution for fitting a GAMLSS model

Description

The SICHEL() function defines the Sichel distribution, a three parameter discrete distribution, for a gamlss.family object to be used in GAMLSS fitting using the function gamlss(). The functions dSICHEL, pSICHEL, qSICHEL and rSICHEL define the density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the Sichel SICHEL(), distribution. The function VSICHEL gives the variance of a fitted Sichel model.

Usage

SICHEL(mu.link = "log", sigma.link = "log", nu.link = "identity")
dSICHEL(x, mu=1, sigma=1, nu=-0.5, log=FALSE)
pSICHEL(q, mu=1, sigma=1, nu=-0.5, lower.tail = TRUE, 
         log.p = FALSE)
qSICHEL(p, mu=1, sigma=1, nu=-0.5,  lower.tail = TRUE, 
        log.p = FALSE, max.value = 10000)        
rSICHEL(n, mu=1, sigma=1, nu=-0.5, max.value = 10000)
VSICHEL(obj)
tofySICHEL(y, mu, sigma, nu)

Arguments

mu.link

Defines the mu.link, with "log" link as the default for the mu parameter

sigma.link

Defines the sigma.link, with "log" link as the default for the sigma parameter

nu.link

Defines the nu.link, with "identity" link as the default for the nu parameter

x

vector of (non-negative integer) quantiles

mu

vector of positive mu

sigma

vector of positive despersion parameter

nu

vector of nu

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]

max.value

a constant, set to the default value of 10000 for how far the algorithm should look for q

obj

a fitted Sichel gamlss model

y

the y variable, the tofySICHEL() should not be used on its own.

Value

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

Details

The probability function of the Sichel distribution is given by $$f(y|\mu,\sigma,\nu)= \frac{\mu^y K_{y+\nu}(\alpha)}{c^y(\alpha \sigma)^{y+\nu} y! K_\nu(\frac{1}{\sigma})}$$ where $\alpha^2=\frac{1}{\sigma^2}+\frac{2\mu}{c \sigma}$, and $c=R_{\nu}(1/\sigma)=K_{\nu+1}(1/\sigma) \left[K_{\nu}(1/\sigma) \right]^{-1}$ for $y=0,1,2,...,\infty$ where $\mu>0$ , $\sigma>0$ and $-\infty < \nu

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.

Rigby, R. A., Stasinopoulos D. M. and Akantziliotou, C. (2006) Modelling the parameters of a family of mixed Poisson distributions including the Sichel and Delaptorte. Submitted for publication.

Stasinopoulos D. M., Rigby R.A. and Akantziliotou C. (2003) Instructions on how to use the GAMLSS package in R. Accompanying documentation in the current GAMLSS help files, (see also http://www.gamlss.org/).

Stein, G. Z., Zucchini, W. and Juritz, J. M. (1987). Parameter Estimation of the Sichel Distribution and its Multivariate Extension. Journal of American Statistical Association, 82, 938-944.

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, PIG , SI

Examples

SICHEL()# gives information about the default links for the  Sichel distribution 
#plot the pdf using plot 
plot(function(y) dSICHEL(y, mu=10, sigma=1, nu=1), from=0, to=100, n=100+1, type="h") # pdf
# plot the cdf
plot(seq(from=0,to=100),pSICHEL(seq(from=0,to=100), mu=10, sigma=1, nu=1), type="h")   # cdf
# generate random sample
tN <- table(Ni <- rSICHEL(100, mu=5, sigma=1, nu=1))
r <- barplot(tN, col='lightblue')
# fit a model to the data 
# library(gamlss)
# gamlss(Ni~1,family=SICHEL, control=gamlss.control(n.cyc=50))