PearsonVII: The Pearson Type VII (aka Student's t) Distribution

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The Pearson Type VII (aka Student's t) Distribution

Description

Density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the Pearson type VII (aka Student's t) distribution.

Usage

dpearsonVII(x, df, location, scale, params, log = FALSE)

ppearsonVII(q, df, location, scale, params, lower.tail = TRUE, 
            log.p = FALSE)

qpearsonVII(p, df, location, scale, params, lower.tail = TRUE, 
            log.p = FALSE)

rpearsonVII(n, df, location, scale, params)

Arguments

x, q	vector of quantiles.
p	vector of probabilities.
n	number of observations.
df	degrees of freedom of Pearson type VII distribution
location	location parameter of Pearson type VII distribution.
scale	scale parameter of Pearson type VII distribution.
params	vector/list of length 3 containing parameters df, location, scale for Pearson type VII distribution (in this order!).
log, log.p	logical; if TRUE, probabilities p are given as log(p).
lower.tail	logical; if TRUE, probabilities are P[X\le x], otherwise, P[X>x].

Details

The Pearson type VII distribution is a simple (location-scale) transformation of the well-known Student's t distribution; the probability density function with parameters df=n, location=\lambda and scale=s is given by

f(x) = \frac{1}{|s|}\frac{\Gamma(\frac{n+1}{2})}{\sqrt{n \pi} \Gamma(\frac{n}{2})} \left(1 + \frac{(\frac{x-\lambda}{s})^2}{n}\right)^{-\frac{n+1}{2}}

for s\ne 0. The above functions are thus only wrappers for dt, pt, qt and rt contained in package stats.

Value

dpearsonVII gives the density, ppearsonVII gives the distribution function, qpearsonVII gives the quantile function, and rpearsonVII generates random deviates.

Author(s)

Martin Becker [e-mail]

References

See the references in TDist.

See Also

TDist, PearsonDS-package, Pearson

Examples

## define Pearson type VII parameter set with df=7, location=1, scale=1
pVIIpars <- list(df=7, location=1, scale=1)
## calculate probability density function
dpearsonVII(-2:4,params=pVIIpars)
## calculate cumulative distribution function
ppearsonVII(-2:4,params=pVIIpars)
## calculate quantile function
qpearsonVII(seq(0.1,0.9,by=0.2),params=pVIIpars)
## generate random numbers
rpearsonVII(5,params=pVIIpars)

PearsonDS documentation built on April 3, 2025, 5:37 p.m.