estimate.probability: Estimate Probability Vectors From Count Vectors

In philentropy: Similarity and Distance Quantification Between Probability Functions

Estimate Probability Vectors From Count Vectors

Description

This function takes a numeric count vector and returns estimated probabilities of the corresponding counts.

The following probability estimation methods are implemented in this function:

• method = "empirical" : generates the relative frequency of the data x/sum(x).

Usage

estimate.probability(x, method = "empirical")

Arguments

x	a numeric vector storing count values.
method	a character string specifying the estimation method tht should be used to estimate probabilities from input counts.

Value

a numeric probability vector.

Author(s)

Hajk-Georg Drost

Examples

# generate a count vector
x <- runif(100)
# generate a probability vector from corresponding counts
x.prob <- estimate.probability(x, method = 'empirical')

philentropy documentation built on April 3, 2025, 10:33 p.m.