validate.plist {OrdNor}

Checks the validity of ordinal probabilities

Description

The function checks the validity of the probability vectors of the ordinal variables. It verifies that the elements in the vectors are cumulative probabilities and the values are between 0 and 1. It also checks a number of vectors within the list matches the specified number of ordinal variables.

Usage

validate.plist(plist, no.ord)

Arguments

plist

A list of probability vectors corresponding to each ordinal variable. The i-th element of plist is a vector of the cumulative probabilities defining the marginal distribution of the i-th ordinal component of the multivariate variables. If the i-th ordinal variable has k categories, the i-th vector of the plist will contain k-1 probability values. The k-th element is implicitly 1.

no.ord

Number of ordinal variables.

Details

The function returns error message if there are any violations. No message is displayed for the correct specifications.

Examples

	marginal = list( c(0.2, 0.5), c(0.4, 0.7, 0.9))
	validate.plist(marginal, 2)