VGAM (version 0.8-7)

Zapois: Zero-Altered Poisson Distribution

Description

Density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the zero-altered Poisson distribution with parameter pobs0.

Usage

dzapois(x, lambda, pobs0 = 0, log = FALSE)
pzapois(q, lambda, pobs0 = 0)
qzapois(p, lambda, pobs0 = 0)
rzapois(n, lambda, pobs0 = 0)

Arguments

x, q

vector of quantiles.

p

vector of probabilities.

n

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

lambda

Vector of positive means.

pobs0

Probability of zero, called $pobs0$. The default value of pobs0 = 0 corresponds to the response having a positive Poisson distribution.

log

Logical. Return the logarithm of the answer?

Value

• dzapois gives the density, pzapois gives the distribution function, qzapois gives the quantile function, and rzapois generates random deviates.

Details

The probability function of $Y$ is 0 with probability pobs0, else a positive $Poisson(\lambda)$.

See Also

zapoisson.

Examples

lambda = 3; pobs0 = 0.2; x = (-1):7
(ii = dzapois(x, lambda, pobs0))
max(abs(cumsum(ii) - pzapois(x, lambda, pobs0)))  # Should be 0
table(rzapois(100, lambda, pobs0))
table(qzapois(runif(100), lambda, pobs0))
round(dzapois(0:10, lambda, pobs0) * 100) # Should be similar

x = 0:10
barplot(rbind(dzapois(x, lambda, pobs0), dpois(x, lambda)),
        beside = TRUE, col = c("blue", "green"), las = 1,
        main = paste("ZAP(", lambda, ", pobs0 = ", pobs0, ") [blue] vs",
                   " Poisson(", lambda, ") [green] densities", sep = ""),
        names.arg = as.character(x), ylab = "Probability")