Beta4 function

Create a 4-Parameter Beta Distribution

Class and methods for 4-parameter beta distributions in regression specification using the workflow from the distributions3 package.

Beta4(mu, phi, theta1 = 0, theta2 = 1 - theta1)

Arguments

• mu: numeric. The mean of the beta distribution that is extended to support [theta1, theta2].
• phi: numeric. The precision parameter of the beta distribution that is extended to support [theta1, theta2].
• theta1, theta2: numeric. The minimum and maximum, respectively, of the 4-parameter beta distribution. By default a symmetric support is chosen by theta2 = 1 - theta1 which reduces to the classic beta distribution because of the default theta1 = 0.

Details

The distribution is obtained by a linear transformation of a beta-distributed random variable with intercept theta1 and slope theta2 - theta1.

Returns

A Beta4 distribution object.

See Also

dbeta4, BetaR

Examples

## package and random seed
library("distributions3")
set.seed(6020)

## three beta distributions
X <- Beta4(
  mu  = c(0.25, 0.50, 0.75),
  phi = c(1, 1, 2),
  theta1 = c(0, -0.1, -0.1),
  theta2 = c(1, 1.1, 1.5)
)

X

## compute moments of the distribution
mean(X)
variance(X)

## support interval (minimum and maximum)
support(X)

## simulate random variables
random(X, 5)

## histograms of 1,000 simulated observations
x <- random(X, 1000)
hist(x[1, ])
hist(x[2, ])
hist(x[3, ])

## probability density function (PDF) and log-density (or log-likelihood)
x <- c(0.25, 0.5, 0.75)
pdf(X, x)
pdf(X, x, log = TRUE)
log_pdf(X, x)

## cumulative distribution function (CDF)
cdf(X, x)

## quantiles
quantile(X, 0.5)

## cdf() and quantile() are inverses
cdf(X, quantile(X, 0.5))
quantile(X, cdf(X, 1))

## all methods above can either be applied elementwise or for
## all combinations of X and x, if length(X) = length(x),
## also the result can be assured to be a matrix via drop = FALSE
p <- c(0.05, 0.5, 0.95)
quantile(X, p, elementwise = FALSE)
quantile(X, p, elementwise = TRUE)
quantile(X, p, elementwise = TRUE, drop = FALSE)

## compare theoretical and empirical mean from 1,000 simulated observations
cbind(
  "theoretical" = mean(X),
  "empirical" = rowMeans(random(X, 1000))
)