rmix.binom: generate a random sample from a mixture of binomials

In MixtureInf: Inference for Finite Mixture Models

Description

Generate a random sample from a mixture of binomials.

Usage

rmix.binom(n, alpha, theta, size)

Arguments

n	sample size
alpha	vector of mixture proportions of length m, the order of the mixture.
theta	vector of probabilities of success of component distributions.
size	number of trials.

Value

Return sample of size n from an m-component binomial mixture.

Author(s)

Shaoting Li, Jiahua Chen and Pengfei Li

See Also

emtest.binom, plotmix.binom, pmle.binom

Examples

#generate a random sample from a 2 component binomial mixture,
#plot the histogram of the data
x <- rmix.binom(200,c(0.3,0.7),c(0.4,0.6),20)
hist(x)

Example output

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