NegativeBinomial: Negative Binomial Distribution Class

NegativeBinomialR Documentation

Negative Binomial Distribution Class

Description

Mathematical and statistical functions for the Negative Binomial distribution, which is commonly used to model the number of successes, trials or failures before a given number of failures or successes.

Details

The Negative Binomial distribution parameterised with number of failures before successes, n, and probability of success, p, is defined by the pmf,

f(x) = C(x + n - 1, n - 1) p^n (1 - p)^x

for n = {0,1,2,…} and probability p, where C(a,b) is the combination (or binomial coefficient) function.

The Negative Binomial distribution can refer to one of four distributions (forms):

  1. The number of failures before K successes (fbs)

  2. The number of successes before K failures (sbf)

  3. The number of trials before K failures (tbf)

  4. The number of trials before K successes (tbs)

For each we refer to the number of K successes/failures as the size parameter.

Value

Returns an R6 object inheriting from class SDistribution.

Distribution support

The distribution is supported on {0,1,2,…} (for fbs and sbf) or {n,n+1,n+2,…} (for tbf and tbs) (see below).

Default Parameterisation

NBinom(size = 10, prob = 0.5, form = "fbs")

Omitted Methods

N/A

Also known as

N/A

Super classes

distr6::Distribution -> distr6::SDistribution -> NegativeBinomial

Public fields

name

Full name of distribution.

short_name

Short name of distribution for printing.

description

Brief description of the distribution.

packages

Packages required to be installed in order to construct the distribution.

Active bindings

properties

Returns distribution properties, including skewness type and symmetry.

Methods

Public methods

Inherited methods

Method new()

Creates a new instance of this R6 class.

Usage
NegativeBinomial$new(
  size = NULL,
  prob = NULL,
  qprob = NULL,
  mean = NULL,
  form = NULL,
  decorators = NULL
)
Arguments
size

(integer(1))
Number of trials/successes.

prob

(numeric(1))
Probability of success.

qprob

(numeric(1))
Probability of failure. If provided then prob is ignored. qprob = 1 - prob.

mean

(numeric(1))
Mean of distribution, alternative to prob and qprob.

form

character(1))
Form of the distribution, cannot be changed after construction. Options are to model the number of,

  • "fbs" - Failures before successes.

  • "sbf" - Successes before failures.

  • "tbf" - Trials before failures.

  • "tbs" - Trials before successes. Use $description to see the Negative Binomial form.

decorators

(character())
Decorators to add to the distribution during construction.


Method mean()

The arithmetic mean of a (discrete) probability distribution X is the expectation

E_X(X) = ∑ p_X(x)*x

with an integration analogue for continuous distributions.

Usage
NegativeBinomial$mean(...)
Arguments
...

Unused.


Method mode()

The mode of a probability distribution is the point at which the pdf is a local maximum, a distribution can be unimodal (one maximum) or multimodal (several maxima).

Usage
NegativeBinomial$mode(which = "all")
Arguments
which

(character(1) | numeric(1)
Ignored if distribution is unimodal. Otherwise "all" returns all modes, otherwise specifies which mode to return.


Method variance()

The variance of a distribution is defined by the formula

var_X = E[X^2] - E[X]^2

where E_X is the expectation of distribution X. If the distribution is multivariate the covariance matrix is returned.

Usage
NegativeBinomial$variance(...)
Arguments
...

Unused.


Method skewness()

The skewness of a distribution is defined by the third standardised moment,

sk_X = E_X[((x - μ)/σ)^3]

where E_X is the expectation of distribution X, μ is the mean of the distribution and σ is the standard deviation of the distribution.

Usage
NegativeBinomial$skewness(...)
Arguments
...

Unused.


Method kurtosis()

The kurtosis of a distribution is defined by the fourth standardised moment,

k_X = E_X[((x - μ)/σ)^4]

where E_X is the expectation of distribution X, μ is the mean of the distribution and σ is the standard deviation of the distribution. Excess Kurtosis is Kurtosis - 3.

Usage
NegativeBinomial$kurtosis(excess = TRUE, ...)
Arguments
excess

(logical(1))
If TRUE (default) excess kurtosis returned.

...

Unused.


Method mgf()

The moment generating function is defined by

mgf_X(t) = E_X[exp(xt)]

where X is the distribution and E_X is the expectation of the distribution X.

Usage
NegativeBinomial$mgf(t, ...)
Arguments
t

(integer(1))
t integer to evaluate function at.

...

Unused.


Method cf()

The characteristic function is defined by

cf_X(t) = E_X[exp(xti)]

where X is the distribution and E_X is the expectation of the distribution X.

Usage
NegativeBinomial$cf(t, ...)
Arguments
t

(integer(1))
t integer to evaluate function at.

...

Unused.


Method pgf()

The probability generating function is defined by

pgf_X(z) = E_X[exp(z^x)]

where X is the distribution and E_X is the expectation of the distribution X.

Usage
NegativeBinomial$pgf(z, ...)
Arguments
z

(integer(1))
z integer to evaluate probability generating function at.

...

Unused.


Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage
NegativeBinomial$clone(deep = FALSE)
Arguments
deep

Whether to make a deep clone.

References

McLaughlin, M. P. (2001). A compendium of common probability distributions (pp. 2014-01). Michael P. McLaughlin.

See Also

Other discrete distributions: Bernoulli, Binomial, Categorical, Degenerate, DiscreteUniform, EmpiricalMV, Empirical, Geometric, Hypergeometric, Logarithmic, Matdist, Multinomial, WeightedDiscrete

Other univariate distributions: Arcsine, Bernoulli, BetaNoncentral, Beta, Binomial, Categorical, Cauchy, ChiSquaredNoncentral, ChiSquared, Degenerate, DiscreteUniform, Empirical, Erlang, Exponential, FDistributionNoncentral, FDistribution, Frechet, Gamma, Geometric, Gompertz, Gumbel, Hypergeometric, InverseGamma, Laplace, Logarithmic, Logistic, Loglogistic, Lognormal, Matdist, Normal, Pareto, Poisson, Rayleigh, ShiftedLoglogistic, StudentTNoncentral, StudentT, Triangular, Uniform, Wald, Weibull, WeightedDiscrete


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