vcov.mixture: Variance of a mixture distribution.

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vcov.mixtureR Documentation

Variance of a mixture distribution.

Description

Uses the law of total variance: Var(X) = E[Var(X|K)] + Var(E[X|K]).

Usage

## S3 method for class 'mixture'
vcov(object, ...)

Arguments

object

A mixture object.

...

Additional arguments (not used).

Value

The variance (scalar for univariate mixtures).

Examples

m <- mixture(list(normal(0, 1), normal(10, 1)), c(0.5, 0.5))
vcov(m)

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