rdirichlet {bayesm}

R Documentation

Draw From Dirichlet Distribution

Description

rdirichlet draws from Dirichlet

Usage

rdirichlet(alpha)

Arguments

alpha

vector of Dirichlet parms (must be > 0)

Value

Vector of draws from Dirichlet

Warning

This routine is a utility routine that does not check the input arguments for proper dimensions and type.

Author(s)

Peter Rossi, Anderson School, UCLA, perossichi@gmail.com.

References

For further discussion, see Chapter 2, Bayesian Statistics and Marketing by Rossi, Allenby, and McCulloch.

Examples

set.seed(66)
rdirichlet(c(rep(3,5)))

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