dist.Log.Laplace {LaplacesDemon}

Log-Laplace Distribution: Univariate Symmetric

Description

These functions provide the density, distribution function, quantile function, and random generation for the univariate, symmetric, log-Laplace distribution with location parameter location and scale parameter scale.

Usage

dllaplace(x, location=0, scale=1, log=FALSE)
pllaplace(q, location=0, scale=1)
qllaplace(p, location=0, scale=1)
rllaplace(n, location=0, scale=1)

Arguments

x, q

These are each a vector of quantiles.

p

This is a vector of probabilities.

n

This is the number of observations, which must be a positive integer that has length 1.

location

This is the location parameter \mu.

scale

This is the scale parameter \lambda, which must be positive.

log

Logical. If log=TRUE, then the logarithm of the density is returned.

Details

• Application: Continuous Univariate

• Density 1: p(\theta) = \frac{(\sqrt{2}/\lambda)^2}{2(\sqrt{2}/\lambda)} \exp(-(\sqrt{2}/\lambda)(\theta - \mu)), \theta \ge \exp(\mu)

• Density 2: p(\theta) = \frac{(\sqrt{2}/\lambda)^2}{2(\sqrt{2}/\lambda)} \exp((\sqrt{2}/\lambda)(\theta - \mu)), \theta < \exp(\mu)

• Inventor: Pierre-Simon Laplace

• Notation 1: \theta \sim \mathcal{LL}(\mu, \lambda)

• Notation 2: p(\theta) = \mathcal{LL}(\theta | \mu, \lambda)

• Parameter 1: location parameter \mu

• Parameter 2: scale parameter \lambda > 0

• Mean: E(\theta) =

• Variance: var(\theta) =

• Mode: mode(\theta) =

The univariate, symmetric log-Laplace distribution is derived from the Laplace distribution. Multivariate and asymmetric versions also exist.

These functions are similar to those in the VGAM package.

Value

dllaplace gives the density, pllaplace gives the distribution function, qllaplace gives the quantile function, and rllaplace generates random deviates.

References

Kozubowski, T. J. and Podgorski, K. (2003). "Log-Laplace Distributions". International Mathematical Journal, 3, p. 467–495.

See Also

dalaplace, dallaplace, dexp, dlaplace, dlaplacep, dmvl, dnorm, dnormp, and dnormv.

Examples

library(LaplacesDemon)
x <- dllaplace(1,0,1)
x <- pllaplace(1,0,1)
x <- qllaplace(0.5,0,1)
x <- rllaplace(100,0,1)

#Plot Probability Functions
x <- seq(from=0.1, to=20, by=0.1)
plot(x, dllaplace(x,0,0.1), ylim=c(0,1), type="l", main="Probability Function",
     ylab="density", col="red")
lines(x, dllaplace(x,0,0.5), type="l", col="green")
lines(x, dllaplace(x,0,1.5), type="l", col="blue")
legend(2, 0.9, expression(paste(mu==0, ", ", lambda==0.1),
     paste(mu==0, ", ", lambda==0.5), paste(mu==0, ", ", lambda==1.5)),
     lty=c(1,1,1), col=c("red","green","blue"))