VGAM (version 0.9-1)

snorm: Skew-Normal Distribution

Description

Density and random generation for the skew-normal distribution.

Usage

dsnorm(x, location = 0, scale = 1, shape = 0, log = FALSE)rsnorm(n, location = 0, scale = 1, shape = 0)

Arguments

x

vector of quantiles.

n

number of observations. Same as runif.

location

The location parameter $\xi$. A vector.

scale

The scale parameter $\omega$. A positive vector.

shape

The shape parameter. It is called $\alpha$ in skewnormal1.

log

Logical. If log=TRUE then the logarithm of the density is returned.

Value

• dsnorm gives the density, rsnorm generates random deviates.

Details

See skewnormal1, which currently only estimates the shape parameter. More generally here, $Z = \xi + \omega Y$ where $Y$ has a standard skew-normal distribution (see skewnormal1), $\xi$ is the location parameter and $\omega$ is the scale parameter.

References

http://tango.stat.unipd.it/SN.

See Also

skewnormal1.

Examples

N <- 200 # grid resolution
shape <- 7
x <- seq(-4, 4, len = N)
plot(x, dsnorm(x, shape = shape), type = "l", col = "blue", las = 1,
     ylab = "", lty = 1, lwd = 2)
abline(v = 0, h = 0, col = "grey")
lines(x, dnorm(x), col = "orange", lty = 2, lwd = 2)
legend("topleft", leg = c(paste("Blue = dsnorm(x, ", shape,")", sep = ""),
       "Orange = standard normal density"), lty = 1:2, lwd = 2,
       col = c("blue", "orange"))