deltaprob: Mean difference of a discrete random variable

In CUB: A Class of Mixture Models for Ordinal Data

Description

Compute the Gini mean difference of a discrete distribution

Usage

deltaprob(prob)

Arguments

prob	Vector of the probability distribution

Value

Numeric value of the Gini mean difference of the input probability distribution, computed according to the de Finetti-Paciello formulation.

Examples

prob<-c(0.04,0.04,0.05,0.10,0.21,0.32,0.24)
deltaprob(prob)

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