VGAM (version 1.0-1)

logF: Natural Exponential Family Generalized Hyperbolic Secant Distribution Family Function

Description

Maximum likelihood estimation of the 1-parameter log F distribution.

Usage

logF(lshape1 = "loge", lshape2 = "loge",
      ishape1 = NULL, ishape2 = 1, imethod = 1)

Arguments

lshape1, lshape2

Parameter link functions for the shape parameters. Called $\alpha$ and $\beta$ respectively. See Links for more choices.

ishape1, ishape2

Optional initial values for the shape parameters. If given, it must be numeric and values are recycled to the appropriate length. The default is to choose the value internally. See CommonVGAMffAr

imethod

Initialization method. Either the value 1, 2, or .... See CommonVGAMffArguments for more information.

Value

• An object of class "vglmff" (see vglmff-class). The object is used by modelling functions such as vglm and vgam.

Details

The density for this distribution is $$f(y; \alpha, \beta) = \exp(\alpha y) / [B(\alpha,\beta) (1 + e^y)^{\alpha + \beta}]$$ where $y$ is real, $\alpha > 0$, $\beta > 0$, $B(., .)$ is the beta function beta.

References

Jones, M. C. (2008). On a class of distributions with simple exponential tails. Statistica Sinica, 18(3), 1101--1110.

See Also

dlogF, logff.

Examples

nn <- 1000
ldata <- data.frame(y1 = rnorm(nn, m = +1, sd = exp(2)),  # Not proper data
                    x2 = rnorm(nn, m = -1, sd = exp(2)),
                    y2 = rnorm(nn, m = -1, sd = exp(2)))  # Not proper data
fit1 <- vglm(y1 ~ 1 , logF, data = ldata, trace = TRUE)
fit2 <- vglm(y2 ~ x2, logF, data = ldata, trace = TRUE)
coef(fit2, matrix = TRUE)
summary(fit2)
vcov(fit2)

head(fitted(fit1))
with(ldata, mean(y1))
max(abs(head(fitted(fit1)) - with(ldata, mean(y1))))