R/dtmod.r

In psobczyk/dhmm: Hidden Semi Markov Models

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# Density functions of the conditional distributions #
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# t distribution
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dtmod <- function(x, mu = 0, sigma = 1, nu = 30, log = FALSE){
  if (log == TRUE){
    x <- log(x)
    }
  nenner1  <- try(sigma*beta(1/2, nu/2))
  zaehler1 <- try(nu^(-1/2))
  nenner2  <- try(nu*sigma^2)
  zaehler2 <- try((x-mu)^2)
  dtmod    <- try(zaehler1/nenner1*(1+zaehler2/nenner2)^(-1*(nu+1)/2))
  return (dtmod)
  }