tggd_log: The Truncated Generalised Gamma Distribution
In tggd: The Standard Distribution Functions for the Truncated Generalised Gamma Distribution

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Note Author(s) References See Also Examples

Density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the Truncated Generalised Gamma Distribution in log base 10 (log10) space. Specifically, if 10^x is drawn from a TGGD distribution (in real space), these functions give the distribution of x, using the same parameter values.

dtggd_log(x, scale=14, a=-1, b=1, xmin=10, log = FALSE)
ptggd_log(q, scale=14, a=-1, b=1, xmin=10, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
qtggd_log(p, scale=14, a=-1, b=1, xmin=10, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE,
res.approx=1e-2)
rtggd_log(n, scale=14, a=-1, b=1, xmin=10, res.approx=1e-2)

`x,q`	Vector of quantiles.
`p`	Vector of probabilities.
`n`	Number of observations. If length(n) > 1, the length is taken to be the number required.
`scale`	Vector of values for scale, which controls the transition regime between the power law slope and the exponential cut-off of the TGGD. This is analogous to the scale parameter for the standard Gamma distribution (see `GammaDist`).
`a`	Vector of values for a, which controls the power law slope of the TGGD.
`b`	Vector of values for b, which controls the exponential cutoff of the TGGD.
`xmin`	Vector of values for xmin, which controls the lower limit at which to trancate the TGGD.
`res.approx`	The resolution used to create the inverted CDF required to map probability integrals back onto quantiles.
`log, log.p`	Logical; if TRUE, probabilities/densities p are returned as log(p).
`lower.tail`	Logical; if TRUE (default), probabilities are P[X <= x], otherwise, P[X > x].

This distribution function is described in detail in Murray, Robotham and Power 2016. The PDF is given by:

f(x;a,b,s,m) = (ln(10).b.(10^(x-scale))^(a+1).exp(-10^(b(x-s))))/gamma_inc((a+1)/b,(10^(m-s))^b)

where, from the argument list above, we use x=x, a=a, b=b, s=scale and m=xmin. gamma_inc is the upper incomplete Gamma function as defined by the gsl gamma_inc function, using the same argument ordering, where gamma_inc(a,x)==pgamma(x,a,lower=FALSE)*gamma(x) for a>0. gamma_inc is used because it allows for the computation of upper incomplete integrals in cases where a<=0.

dtggd_log gives the density, ptggd_log gives the distribution function, qtggd_log gives the quantile function, and rtggd_log generates random deviates.

Invalid arguments will result in return value NaN, with a warning.

The length of the result is determined by n for rtggd_log, and is the maximum of the lengths of the numerical arguments for the other functions.

The numerical arguments other than n are recycled to the length of the result. Only the first elements of the logical arguments are used.

The intended application of the log-space version of the TGGD is to provide the correct distribution when variates are drawn from a real-space TGGD, but there are priors on their uncertainty which operate in logspace (eg. a lognormal distribution). The likelihood of a given set of parameters is incorrect in such a case if the real-space version is used without an adjustment to the Jacobian.

Aaron Robotham, Steven Murray

Murray, Robotham and Power (2016)

GammaDist regarding the Gamma distribution. RNG about random number generation in R. Distributions for other standard distributions.

r <- rtggd_log(100,a=-2)
hist(r)

##Ideally the output below should equal 0, in practice it will be very close:
qtggd_log(ptggd_log(r))-r

#These should be the same:
integrate(dtggd_log,lower=10,upper=11,a=-1.5,b=0.7,xmin=10)
ptggd_log(11,a=-1.5,b=0.7,xmin=10)

#This should be very close to 1 (for a true PDF):
ptggd_log(18,a=-1.5,b=0.7,xmin=10)

#To show the link to the linear and ln variants (and the slight inaccuracies) these
#outputs should be a sequence from 0 to 1 (by=0.1):
ptggd_ln(log(qtggd(seq(0,1,by=0.1))))
ptggd_ln(qtggd_log(seq(0,1,by=0.1))*log(10))