histprior {LearnBayes}

Density function of a histogram distribution

Description

Computes the density of a probability distribution defined on a set of equal-width intervals

Usage

histprior(p,midpts,prob)

Arguments

p

vector of values for which density is to be computed

midpts

vector of midpoints of the intervals

prob

vector of probabilities of the intervals

Value

vector of values of the probability density

Author(s)

Jim Albert

Examples

midpts=c(.1,.3,.5,.7,.9)
prob=c(.2,.2,.4,.1,.1)
p=seq(.01,.99,by=.01)
plot(p,histprior(p,midpts,prob),type="l")