sextreme {extras}

Extreme Surprisal

Description

Calculates the surprisal (in bits) that a cumulative distribution function probability is at least that extreme.

Usage

sextreme(x, directional = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A numeric vector of values between 0 and 1.

directional

A flag specifying whether probabilities less than 0.5 should be returned as negative values.

Value

A numeric vector of surprisal values.

See Also

Other residuals: pextreme()

Examples

sextreme(seq(0.1, 0.9, by = 0.1))
sextreme(seq(0.1, 0.9, by = 0.1), directional = TRUE)