empiricalParameters.numeric {TruncExpFam}

Extract parameters

Description

Extract parameters

Usage

## S3 method for class 'numeric'
empiricalParameters(y, family = "gaussian", natural = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

y

Numeric vector containing observations from a random variable

family

Distribution family to assume for y

natural

Should output be in terms of the natural parameter eta?

...

arguments passed to empiricalParameters()

Examples

# Some random data
x <- c(
  4, 3, 6, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 2, 3, 0, 4, 2, 0, 1, 4, 3, 0, 0, 2, 3, 0, 3, 7,
  2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 0, 2, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 3, 1, 0, 4, 2, 2,
  0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 0, 3, 3, 2, 0, 2, 2, 3, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 1,
  0, 2, 4, 2, 3, 3, 0, 1, 0, 5, 2, 4, 2, 7, 4, 4, 1, 2, 4, 3, 2, 4, 3, 1, 3
)

# Extracting parameters under different distribution assumptions
empiricalParameters(x, family = "normal")
empiricalParameters(x, family = "normal", natural = TRUE)
empiricalParameters(x, family = "binomial", nsize = max(x))
empiricalParameters(x, family = "poisson", natural = FALSE)
empiricalParameters(x, family = "poisson", natural = TRUE)