dirichlet: Functions for the Dirichlet Distribution

dirichletR Documentation

Functions for the Dirichlet Distribution

Description

Functions to compute the density of or generate random deviates from the Dirichlet distribution

Usage

ddirichlet(x, alpha)

rdirichlet(n, alpha)

Arguments

x

A vector containing a single random deviate or matrix containing one random deviate per row.

alpha

Vector or (for ddirichlet) matrix containing shape parameters.

n

Number of random vectors to generate.

Details

The Dirichlet distribution is the multidimensional generalization of the beta distribution. It is the canonical Bayesian distribution for the parameter estimates of a multinomial distribution.

Value

ddirichlet returns a vector containing the Dirichlet density for the corresponding rows of x.

rdirichlet returns a matrix with n rows, each containing a single Dirichlet random deviate.

Functions

  • ddirichlet(): Dirichlet distribution function.

  • rdirichlet(): Generate dirichlet random deviates.

Author(s)

Code original posted by Ben Bolker to R-News on Fri Dec 15 2000. See https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2000-December/009561.html. Ben attributed the code to Ian Wilson i.wilson@maths.abdn.ac.uk. Subsequent modifications by Gregory R. Warnes greg@warnes.net.

See Also

dbeta, rbeta

Examples



x <- rdirichlet(20, c(1, 1, 1))

ddirichlet(x, c(1, 1, 1))

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