Wald: Wald Distribution Class

WaldR Documentation

Wald Distribution Class

Description

Mathematical and statistical functions for the Wald distribution, which is commonly used for modelling the first passage time for Brownian motion.

Details

The Wald distribution parameterised with mean, \mu, and shape, \lambda, is defined by the pdf,

f(x) = (\lambda/(2x^3\pi))^{1/2} exp((-\lambda(x-\mu)^2)/(2\mu^2x))

for \lambda > 0 and \mu > 0.

Sampling is performed as per Michael, Schucany, Haas (1976).

Value

Returns an R6 object inheriting from class SDistribution.

Distribution support

The distribution is supported on the Positive Reals.

Default Parameterisation

Wald(mean = 1, shape = 1)

Omitted Methods

quantile is omitted as no closed form analytic expression could be found, decorate with FunctionImputation for a numerical imputation.

Also known as

Also known as the Inverse Normal distribution.

Super classes

distr6::Distribution -> distr6::SDistribution -> Wald

Public fields

name

Full name of distribution.

short_name

Short name of distribution for printing.

description

Brief description of the distribution.

alias

Alias of the distribution.

packages

Packages required to be installed in order to construct the distribution.

Methods

Public methods

Inherited methods

Method new()

Creates a new instance of this R6 class.

Usage
Wald$new(mean = NULL, shape = NULL, decorators = NULL)
Arguments
mean

(numeric(1))
Mean of the distribution, location parameter, defined on the positive Reals.

shape

(numeric(1))
Shape parameter, defined on the positive Reals.

decorators

(character())
Decorators to add to the distribution during construction.


Method mean()

The arithmetic mean of a (discrete) probability distribution X is the expectation

E_X(X) = \sum p_X(x)*x

with an integration analogue for continuous distributions.

Usage
Wald$mean(...)
Arguments
...

Unused.


Method mode()

The mode of a probability distribution is the point at which the pdf is a local maximum, a distribution can be unimodal (one maximum) or multimodal (several maxima).

Usage
Wald$mode(which = "all")
Arguments
which

⁠(character(1) | numeric(1)⁠
Ignored if distribution is unimodal. Otherwise "all" returns all modes, otherwise specifies which mode to return.


Method variance()

The variance of a distribution is defined by the formula

var_X = E[X^2] - E[X]^2

where E_X is the expectation of distribution X. If the distribution is multivariate the covariance matrix is returned.

Usage
Wald$variance(...)
Arguments
...

Unused.


Method skewness()

The skewness of a distribution is defined by the third standardised moment,

sk_X = E_X[\frac{x - \mu}{\sigma}^3]

where E_X is the expectation of distribution X, \mu is the mean of the distribution and \sigma is the standard deviation of the distribution.

Usage
Wald$skewness(...)
Arguments
...

Unused.


Method kurtosis()

The kurtosis of a distribution is defined by the fourth standardised moment,

k_X = E_X[\frac{x - \mu}{\sigma}^4]

where E_X is the expectation of distribution X, \mu is the mean of the distribution and \sigma is the standard deviation of the distribution. Excess Kurtosis is Kurtosis - 3.

Usage
Wald$kurtosis(excess = TRUE, ...)
Arguments
excess

(logical(1))
If TRUE (default) excess kurtosis returned.

...

Unused.


Method mgf()

The moment generating function is defined by

mgf_X(t) = E_X[exp(xt)]

where X is the distribution and E_X is the expectation of the distribution X.

Usage
Wald$mgf(t, ...)
Arguments
t

(integer(1))
t integer to evaluate function at.

...

Unused.


Method cf()

The characteristic function is defined by

cf_X(t) = E_X[exp(xti)]

where X is the distribution and E_X is the expectation of the distribution X.

Usage
Wald$cf(t, ...)
Arguments
t

(integer(1))
t integer to evaluate function at.

...

Unused.


Method pgf()

The probability generating function is defined by

pgf_X(z) = E_X[exp(z^x)]

where X is the distribution and E_X is the expectation of the distribution X.

Usage
Wald$pgf(z, ...)
Arguments
z

(integer(1))
z integer to evaluate probability generating function at.

...

Unused.


Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage
Wald$clone(deep = FALSE)
Arguments
deep

Whether to make a deep clone.

References

McLaughlin, M. P. (2001). A compendium of common probability distributions (pp. 2014-01). Michael P. McLaughlin.

Michael, J. R., Schucany, W. R., & Haas, R. W. (1976). Generating random variates using transformations with multiple roots. The American Statistician, 30(2), 88-90.

See Also

Other continuous distributions: Arcsine, BetaNoncentral, Beta, Cauchy, ChiSquaredNoncentral, ChiSquared, Dirichlet, Erlang, Exponential, FDistributionNoncentral, FDistribution, Frechet, Gamma, Gompertz, Gumbel, InverseGamma, Laplace, Logistic, Loglogistic, Lognormal, MultivariateNormal, Normal, Pareto, Poisson, Rayleigh, ShiftedLoglogistic, StudentTNoncentral, StudentT, Triangular, Uniform, Weibull

Other univariate distributions: Arcsine, Arrdist, Bernoulli, BetaNoncentral, Beta, Binomial, Categorical, Cauchy, ChiSquaredNoncentral, ChiSquared, Degenerate, DiscreteUniform, Empirical, Erlang, Exponential, FDistributionNoncentral, FDistribution, Frechet, Gamma, Geometric, Gompertz, Gumbel, Hypergeometric, InverseGamma, Laplace, Logarithmic, Logistic, Loglogistic, Lognormal, Matdist, NegativeBinomial, Normal, Pareto, Poisson, Rayleigh, ShiftedLoglogistic, StudentTNoncentral, StudentT, Triangular, Uniform, Weibull, WeightedDiscrete


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