Exponential: The Exponential Distribution

Description

Density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the exponential distribution with rate rate (i.e., mean 1/rate).

Usage

dexp(x, rate = 1, log = FALSE)
pexp(q, rate = 1, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
qexp(p, rate = 1, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
rexp(n, rate = 1)

Arguments

x, q

vector of quantiles.

vector of probabilities.

number of observations. If length(n) > 1, the length is taken to be the number required.

rate

vector of rates.

log, log.p

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

lower.tail

logical; if TRUE (default), probabilities are $P [X \leq x]$ , otherwise, $P [X > x]$ .

Value

dexp gives the density, pexp gives the distribution function, qexp gives the quantile function, and rexp generates random deviates.

The length of the result is determined by n for rexp, and is the maximum of the lengths of the numerical arguments for the other functions.

The numerical arguments other than n are recycled to the length of the result. Only the first elements of the logical arguments are used.

Details

If rate is not specified, it assumes the default value of 1.

The exponential distribution with rate $λ$ has density $f (x) = λ e^{- λ x}$ for $x \geq 0$ .

References

Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

Johnson, N. L., Kotz, S. and Balakrishnan, N. (1995) Continuous Univariate Distributions, volume 1, chapter 19. Wiley, New York.

Examples

Run this code

# NOT RUN {
dexp(1) - exp(-1) #-> 0

## a fast way to generate *sorted*  U[0,1]  random numbers:
rsunif <- function(n) { n1 <- n+1
   cE <- cumsum(rexp(n1)); cE[seq_len(n)]/cE[n1] }
plot(rsunif(1000), ylim=0:1, pch=".")
abline(0,1/(1000+1), col=adjustcolor(1, 0.5))
# }

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