dhalflogistic: Half-logistic distribution.

In bayesmeta: Bayesian Random-Effects Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression

Half-logistic distribution.

Description

Half-logistic density, distribution, and quantile functions, random number generation and expectation and variance.

Usage

  dhalflogistic(x, scale=1, log=FALSE)
  phalflogistic(q, scale=1)
  qhalflogistic(p, scale=1)
  rhalflogistic(n, scale=1)
  ehalflogistic(scale=1)
  vhalflogistic(scale=1)

Arguments

x, q	quantile.
p	probability.
n	number of observations.
scale	scale parameter (>0).
log	logical; if TRUE, logarithmic density will be returned.

Details

The half-logistic distribution is simply a zero-mean logistic distribution that is restricted to take only positive values. If X\sim\mathrm{logistic}, then |sX|\sim\mathrm{halflogistic}(\mathrm{scale}\!=\!s).

Value

‘dhalflogistic()’ gives the density function, ‘phalflogistic()’ gives the cumulative distribution function (CDF), ‘qhalflogistic()’ gives the quantile function (inverse CDF), and ‘rhalflogistic()’ generates random deviates. The ‘ehalflogistic()’ and ‘vhalflogistic()’ functions return the corresponding half-logistic distribution's expectation and variance, respectively.

Author(s)

Christian Roever [e-mail]

References

C. Roever, R. Bender, S. Dias, C.H. Schmid, H. Schmidli, S. Sturtz, S. Weber, T. Friede. On weakly informative prior distributions for the heterogeneity parameter in Bayesian random-effects meta-analysis. Research Synthesis Methods, 12(4):448-474, 2021. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1002/jrsm.1475")}.

N.L. Johnson, S. Kotz, N. Balakrishnan. Continuous univariate distributions, volume 2, chapter 23.11. Wiley, New York, 2nd edition, 1994.

See Also

dlogis, dhalfnormal, dlomax, drayleigh, TurnerEtAlPrior, RhodesEtAlPrior, bayesmeta.

Examples

#######################
# illustrate densities:
x <- seq(0,6,le=200)
plot(x, dhalfnormal(x), type="l", col="red", ylim=c(0,1),
     xlab=expression(tau), ylab=expression("probability density "*f(tau)))
lines(x, dhalflogistic(x), col="green3")
lines(x, dhalfcauchy(x), col="blue")
lines(x, dexp(x), col="cyan")
abline(h=0, v=0, col="grey")

# show log-densities (note the differing tail behaviour):
plot(x, dhalfnormal(x), type="l", col="red", ylim=c(0.001,1), log="y",
     xlab=expression(tau), ylab=expression("probability density "*f(tau)))
lines(x, dhalflogistic(x), col="green3")
lines(x, dhalfcauchy(x), col="blue")
lines(x, dexp(x), col="cyan")
abline(v=0, col="grey")

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