Laplace function

Laplace distribution

Density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the Laplace distribution.

dlaplace(x, mu = 0, sigma = 1, log = FALSE)

plaplace(q, mu = 0, sigma = 1, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)

qlaplace(p, mu = 0, sigma = 1, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)

rlaplace(n, mu = 0, sigma = 1)

Arguments

• x, q: vector of quantiles.

• mu, sigma: location and scale parameters. Scale must be positive.

• log, log.p: logical; if TRUE, probabilities p are given as log(p).

• lower.tail: logical; if TRUE (default), probabilities are $P[X \le x]$

  otherwise, $P[X > x]$.

• p: vector of probabilities.

• n: number of observations. If length(n) > 1, the length is taken to be the number required.

Details

Probability density function

Cumulative distribution function

Quantile function

Examples

x <- rlaplace(1e5, 5, 16)
hist(x, 100, freq = FALSE)
curve(dlaplace(x, 5, 16), -200, 200, n = 500, col = "red", add = TRUE)
hist(plaplace(x, 5, 16))
plot(ecdf(x))
curve(plaplace(x, 5, 16), -200, 200, n = 500, col = "red", lwd = 2, add = TRUE)

References

Krishnamoorthy, K. (2006). Handbook of Statistical Distributions with Applications. Chapman & Hall/CRC

Forbes, C., Evans, M. Hastings, N., & Peacock, B. (2011). Statistical Distributions. John Wiley & Sons.