empirical_dist: Construct empirical distribution object.

In algebraic.dist: Algebra over Probability Distributions

Construct empirical distribution object.

Description

Construct empirical distribution object.

Usage

empirical_dist(data)

Arguments

data	data to construct empirical distribution from. if matrix or data frame, each row is a joint observation, if a vector, each element is an observation. whatever data is, it must be convertible to a tibble.

Value

An empirical_dist object.

Examples

# Univariate empirical distribution from a vector
ed <- empirical_dist(c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5))
mean(ed)

# Multivariate empirical distribution from a matrix
mat <- matrix(c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), ncol = 2)
ed_mv <- empirical_dist(mat)
dim(ed_mv)

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