getFamilies: Lists (all) distribution families with their parameters

In DistributionFitR: Fitting Multiple Parametric Distributions

Description

This function extracts distribution families from R-packages along with their parameters and characteristics, and scans specific packages if desired.

Usage

getFamilies(all.packages)

Arguments

all.packages

character vector or missing or logical; package names in which to scan: character the distribution families given TRUE all installed packages FALSE base packages of R If missing, a list of recognized families is returned.

Details

This function retrieves distribution families from R-packages as specified in ‘arguments’. A distribution family is defined as follows:
Take the functions dnorm, pnorm, qnorm and rnorm from the package ‘stats’. These functions are related to sampling, density etc. of the normal distribution. The family name is the part of the function name without the prefixes ‘d’, ‘p’, ‘q’, or ‘r’ , in this case: ‘norm’.

Value

A list of lists. Each sublist pertains to exactly one distribution family (such as ‘norm’ from ‘stats’) and contains:

package	character; name of the package containing the family
family	character; name of the family, as defined under “Details”
family_info	lower: named numeric vector; lower bounds for distribution parameters upper: named numeric vector; upper bounds for distribution parameters accepts_float: named logical vector; whether each parameter can be any real number (TRUE) or only integers are valid inputs (FALSE) defaults: names numeric vector; set of default parameters that jointly constitute valid input. Used for optimisation. log: logical; whether log values are provided by the density function discrete: logical; whether the distribution itself (not the parameters) takes on discrete values only support_min: numeric; lower bound of the support, i.e. lowest value of x where f(x) > 0 numerically for any valid parameter set, f the density function support_max: numeric; upper bound of the support support_max_depends_on: named logical vector; whether support_max depends on the value of each parameter support_min_depends_on: named logical vector; whether support_min depends on the value of each parameter

Author(s)

Tim Glockner, Adrian Heppeler, Borui Niklas Zhu

Examples

 
  str(getFamilies())

DistributionFitR documentation built on March 13, 2020, 3:29 a.m.