Burr: The Burr Distribution

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The Burr Distribution

Description

Density function, distribution function, quantile function, random generation, raw moments and limited moments for the Burr distribution with parameters shape1, shape2 and scale.

Usage

dburr(x, shape1, shape2, rate = 1, scale = 1/rate,
      log = FALSE)
pburr(q, shape1, shape2, rate = 1, scale = 1/rate,
      lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
qburr(p, shape1, shape2, rate = 1, scale = 1/rate,
      lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
rburr(n, shape1, shape2, rate = 1, scale = 1/rate)
mburr(order, shape1, shape2, rate = 1, scale = 1/rate)
levburr(limit, shape1, shape2, rate = 1, scale = 1/rate,
        order = 1)

Arguments

x, q	vector of quantiles.
p	vector of probabilities.
n	number of observations. If length(n) > 1, the length is taken to be the number required.
shape1, shape2, scale	parameters. Must be strictly positive.
rate	an alternative way to specify the scale.
log, log.p	logical; if TRUE, probabilities/densities p are returned as \log(p).
lower.tail	logical; if TRUE (default), probabilities are P[X \le x], otherwise, P[X > x].
order	order of the moment.
limit	limit of the loss variable.

Details

The Burr distribution with parameters shape1 = \alpha, shape2 = \gamma and scale = \theta has density:

f(x) = \frac{\alpha \gamma (x/\theta)^\gamma}{% x [1 + (x/\theta)^\gamma]^{\alpha + 1}}

for x > 0, \alpha > 0, \gamma > 0 and \theta > 0.

The Burr is the distribution of the random variable

\theta \left(\frac{X}{1 - X}\right)^{1/\gamma},

where X has a beta distribution with parameters 1 and \alpha.

The Burr distribution has the following special cases:

• A Loglogistic distribution when shape1 == 1;

• A Paralogistic distribution when shape2 == shape1;

• A Pareto distribution when shape2 == 1.

The kth raw moment of the random variable X is E[X^k], -\gamma < k < \alpha\gamma.

The kth limited moment at some limit d is E[\min(X, d)^k], k > -\gamma and \alpha - k/\gamma not a negative integer.

Value

dburr gives the density, pburr gives the distribution function, qburr gives the quantile function, rburr generates random deviates, mburr gives the kth raw moment, and levburr gives the kth moment of the limited loss variable.

Invalid arguments will result in return value NaN, with a warning.

Note

levburr computes the limited expected value using betaint.

Distribution also known as the Burr Type XII or Singh-Maddala distribution. See also Kleiber and Kotz (2003) for alternative names and parametrizations.

The "distributions" package vignette provides the interrelations between the continuous size distributions in actuar and the complete formulas underlying the above functions.

Author(s)

Vincent Goulet [e-mail] and Mathieu Pigeon

References

Kleiber, C. and Kotz, S. (2003), Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences, Wiley.

Klugman, S. A., Panjer, H. H. and Willmot, G. E. (2012), Loss Models, From Data to Decisions, Fourth Edition, Wiley.

See Also

dpareto4 for an equivalent distribution with a location parameter.

Examples

exp(dburr(1, 2, 3, log = TRUE))
p <- (1:10)/10
pburr(qburr(p, 2, 3, 2), 2, 3, 2)

## variance
mburr(2, 2, 3, 1) - mburr(1, 2, 3, 1) ^ 2

## case with shape1 - order/shape2 > 0
levburr(10, 2, 3, 1, order = 2)

## case with shape1 - order/shape2 < 0
levburr(10, 1.5, 0.5, 1, order = 2)

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