dhermite {hermite}

Probability mass function for the generalized Hermite distribution

Description

Probability mass function for the generalized Hermite distribution with parameters a, b and m.

Usage

  dhermite(x, a, b, m=2)

Arguments

x

vector of non-negative integer quantiles.

a

first parameter for the Hermite distribution.

b

second parameter for the Hermite distribution.

m

degree of the generalized Hermite distribution. Its default value is 2, corresponding to the standard Hermite distribution.

Value

Probability for a generalized Hermite random varible with parameters a, b and m of taking x counts.

Author(s)

David Moriña, Manuel Higueras, Pedro Puig and María Oliveira

References

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Puig P. (2003). Characterizing Additively Closed Discrete Models by a Property of Their Maximum Likelihood Estimators, with an Application to Generalized Hermite Distributions. Journal of the American Statistical Association 2003; 98:687–692.

See Also

Distributions for some other distributions, qhermite, phermite, rhermite, hermite-package, glm.hermite

Examples

d <- dhermite(3, 0.8, 0.3)