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Function for creating a table of x-errors of a numerical inversion method (i.e., it uses an approximate quantile function of the target distribution). Thus the domain of the inverse distribution function is partitioned into intervals for which maxima, minima and some other quantiles of the x-errors are computed.
Currently the function only works for generators for continuous univariate distribution.
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n |
sample size for one repetition. |
aqdist |
approximate inverse distribution function (quantile function) for a continuous univariate distribution. |
qdist |
(Exact) quatile function of distribution. |
... |
parameters to be passed to |
trunc |
boundaries of truncated domain. (optional) |
udomain |
domain of investigation for (approximate) quantile
function |
res |
resolution (number of intervals). |
kind |
kind of x-error. |
tails |
logical. If |
plot |
logical. If |
The absolute x-error of an approximate inverse distribution function (quantile function) G^[-1] for some u in (0,1) is given by
e_x(u) = |F^[-1](u) - G^[-1](u)|
where F^[-1] denotes the (exact) quantile function of the distribution. The relative x-error is then defined as
e_x(u) / |F^[-1](u)|
Computing, plotting and analyzing of such x-errors can be quite time consuming.
e_x(u)
is a very volatile function and requires the computation at a lot of points. For plotting we can condense the information by partitioning (0,1) into intervals of equal length. In each of these the x-error is computed at equidistributed points and some quantiles (see below) are estimated and stored. Thus we save memory and it is much faster to plot and compare x-errors for different methods or distributions.
If trunc
is given, then function qdist
is rescaled to
this given domain. Notice, however, that this has some influence on
the accuracy of the results of the “exact” quantile function
qdist
.
Using argument udomain
it is possible to restrict the domain of
the given (approximate) quantile function aqdist
, i.e., of its
argument u.
When tails=TRUE
we use additional n
points for the first
and last interval (which correspond to the tail regions of the
distribution).
An object of class "rvgt.ierror"
, see
uerror
for details.
It should be noted that xerror
computes the difference
between the approximate inversion function aqdist(u)
and the
given ‘exact’ quantile function qdist
.
Thus one needs a quantile function qdist
that is
numerically (much) more accurate than aqdist
.
The random variate generator rdist
can alternatively be a
generator object form the
Runuran package.
Josef Leydold josef.leydold@wu.ac.at
See plot.rvgt.ierror
for the syntax of the plotting
method. See uerror
for computing u-errors.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 | ## Create a table of absolute x-errors for spline interpolation of
## the inverse CDF of the standard normal distribution.
aq <- splinefun(x=pnorm((-100:100)*0.05), y=(-100:100)*0.05,
method="monoH.FC")
## Use a sample of size of 10^5 random variates.
xerr <- xerror(n=1e5, aqdist=aq, qdist=qnorm, kind="abs")
## Plot x-errors
plot(xerr)
## Same for the relative error.
## But this time we use a resolution of 500, and
## we immediately plot the error.
xerr <- xerror(n=1e5, aqdist=aq, qdist=qnorm,
res=500, kind="rel", plot=TRUE)
## An inverse CDF for a truncated normal distribution
aqtn <- splinefun(x=(pnorm((0:100)*0.015) - pnorm(0))/(pnorm(1.5)-pnorm(0)),
y=(0:100)*0.015, method="monoH.FC")
xerrtn <- xerror(n=1e5, aqdist=aqtn, qdist=qnorm, trunc=c(0,1.5),
plot=TRUE)
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