distributional (version 0.5.0)

dist_geometric: The Geometric Distribution

Description

The Geometric distribution can be thought of as a generalization of the dist_bernoulli() distribution where we ask: "if I keep flipping a coin with probability p of heads, what is the probability I need \(k\) flips before I get my first heads?" The Geometric distribution is a special case of Negative Binomial distribution.

Usage

dist_geometric(prob)

Arguments

prob

probability of success in each trial. 0 < prob <= 1.

Details

We recommend reading this documentation on https://pkg.mitchelloharawild.com/distributional/, where the math will render nicely.

In the following, let \(X\) be a Geometric random variable with success probability p = \(p\). Note that there are multiple parameterizations of the Geometric distribution.

Support: 0 < p < 1, \(x = 0, 1, \dots\)

Mean: \(\frac{1-p}{p}\)

Variance: \(\frac{1-p}{p^2}\)

Probability mass function (p.m.f):

$$ P(X = x) = p(1-p)^x, $$

Cumulative distribution function (c.d.f):

$$ P(X \le x) = 1 - (1-p)^{x+1} $$

Moment generating function (m.g.f):

$$ E(e^{tX}) = \frac{pe^t}{1 - (1-p)e^t} $$

See Also

stats::Geometric

Examples

dist <- dist_geometric(prob = c(0.2, 0.5, 0.8))

dist
mean(dist)
variance(dist)
skewness(dist)
kurtosis(dist)

generate(dist, 10)

density(dist, 2)
density(dist, 2, log = TRUE)

cdf(dist, 4)

quantile(dist, 0.7)