random_structure

Generates random parameters <code>alpha</code> and <code>S</code> of a phase-type
distribution of dimension <code>p</code> with chosen structure.

Tools for phase-type distributions including the following variants:
continuous, discrete, multivariate, in-homogeneous, right-censored, and regression.
Methods for functional evaluation, simulation and estimation using the
expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm are provided for all models.
The methods of this package are based on the following references.
Asmussen, S., Nerman, O., & Olsson, M. (1996). Fitting phase-type distributions via the EM algorithm,
Olsson, M. (1996). Estimation of phase-type distributions from censored data,
Albrecher, H., & Bladt, M. (2019) <doi:10.1017/jpr.2019.60>,
Albrecher, H., Bladt, M., & Yslas, J. (2022) <doi:10.1111/sjos.12505>,
Albrecher, H., Bladt, M., Bladt, M., & Yslas, J. (2022) <doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2022.08.001>,
Bladt, M., & Yslas, J. (2022) <doi:10.1080/03461238.2022.2097019>,
Bladt, M. (2022) <doi:10.1017/asb.2021.40>,
Bladt, M. (2023) <doi:10.1080/10920277.2023.2167833>,
Albrecher, H., Bladt, M., & Mueller, A. (2023) <doi:10.1515/demo-2022-0153>,
Bladt, M. & Yslas, J. (2023) <doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2023.02.008>.

Martin Bladt

matrixdist

Statistics for Matrix Distributions

Jorge Yslas

Alaric Müller

random_structure function

<dl><dt>p</dt>
<dd>Dimension of the phase-type.</dd>
<dt>structure</dt>
<dd>Type of structure: "general", "hyperexponential", "gerlang",
"coxian" or "gcoxian".</dd>
<dt>scale_factor</dt>
<dd>A factor that multiplies the sub-intensity matrix.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Random structure of a phase-type — random_structure

<dl>

<dt>p</dt>
<dd>Dimension of the phase-type.</dd>


<dt>structure</dt>
<dd>Type of structure: "general", "hyperexponential", "gerlang",
"coxian" or "gcoxian".</dd>


<dt>scale_factor</dt>
<dd>A factor that multiplies the sub-intensity matrix.</dd>

</dl>

random_structure: Random structure of a phase-type

Description

Usage

Value

Arguments