ZeroModifiedPoisson: The Zero-Modified Poisson Distribution

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The Zero-Modified Poisson Distribution

Description

Density function, distribution function, quantile function, random generation for the Zero-Modified Poisson distribution with parameter lambda and arbitrary probability at zero p0.

Usage

dzmpois(x, lambda, p0, log = FALSE)
pzmpois(q, lambda, p0, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
qzmpois(p, lambda, p0, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
rzmpois(n, lambda, p0)

Arguments

x	vector of (strictly positive integer) quantiles.
q	vector of quantiles.
p	vector of probabilities.
n	number of values to return.
lambda	vector of (non negative) means.
p0	probability mass at zero. 0 <= p0 <= 1.
log, log.p	logical; if TRUE, probabilities p are returned as \log(p).
lower.tail	logical; if TRUE (default), probabilities are P[X \le x], otherwise, P[X > x].

Details

The zero-modified Poisson distribution is a discrete mixture between a degenerate distribution at zero and a (standard) Poisson. The probability mass function is p(0) = p_0 and

% p(x) = \frac{(1-p_0)}{(1-e^{-\lambda})} f(x)

for x = 1, 2, ..., \lambda > 0 and 0 \le p_0 \le 1, where f(x) is the probability mass function of the Poisson. The cumulative distribution function is

P(x) = p_0 + (1 - p_0) \left(\frac{F(x) - F(0)}{1 - F(0)}\right).

The mean is (1-p_0) \mu and the variance is (1-p_0) \sigma^2 + p_0(1-p_0) \mu^2, where \mu and \sigma^2 are the mean and variance of the zero-truncated Poisson.

In the terminology of Klugman et al. (2012), the zero-modified Poisson is a member of the (a, b, 1) class of distributions with a = 0 and b = \lambda.

The special case p0 == 0 is the zero-truncated Poisson.

If an element of x is not integer, the result of dzmpois is zero, with a warning.

The quantile is defined as the smallest value x such that P(x) \ge p, where P is the distribution function.

Value

dzmpois gives the (log) probability mass function, pzmpois gives the (log) distribution function, qzmpois gives the quantile function, and rzmpois generates random deviates.

Invalid lambda or p0 will result in return value NaN, with a warning.

The length of the result is determined by n for rzmpois, and is the maximum of the lengths of the numerical arguments for the other functions.

Note

Functions {d,p,q}zmpois use {d,p,q}pois for all but the trivial input values and p(0).

Author(s)

Vincent Goulet [e-mail]

References

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

See Also

dpois for the standard Poisson distribution.

dztpois for the zero-truncated Poisson distribution.

Examples

dzmpois(0:5, lambda = 1, p0 = 0.2)
(1-0.2) * dpois(0:5, lambda = 1)/ppois(0, 1, lower = FALSE) # same

## simple relation between survival functions
pzmpois(0:5, 1, p0 = 0.2, lower = FALSE)
(1-0.2) * ppois(0:5, 1, lower = FALSE) /
    ppois(0, 1, lower = FALSE) # same

qzmpois(pzmpois(0:10, 1, p0 = 0.7), 1, p0 = 0.7)

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