rmixnegbinom: The Negative Binomial Mixture Distribution

In mederrRank: Bayesian Methods for Identifying the Most Harmful Medication Errors

The Negative Binomial Mixture Distribution

Description

Random generation for a mixture of two negative binomial distributions.

Usage

rmixnegbinom(n, theta, E)

Arguments

n	number of observations.
theta	vector of parameters for the negative binomial distribution mixture.
E	vector of (non-negative integer) expected counts.

Value

rmixnegbinom generates random deviates corresponding to the E and theta values provided.

Author(s)

Sergio Venturini [e-mail],

Jessica A. Myers [e-mail]

References

Myers, J. A., Venturini, S., Dominici, F. and Morlock, L. (2011), "Random Effects Models for Identifying the Most Harmful Medication Errors in a Large, Voluntary Reporting Database". Technical Report.

See Also

dmixnegbinom, rnbinom.

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