marginal_probabilities {otsfeatures}R Documentation

Computes the marginal probabilities of an ordinal time series

Description

marginal_probabilities returns a vector with the marginal probabilities of an ordinal time series

Usage

marginal_probabilities(series, states)

Arguments

series

An OTS (numerical vector with integers).

states

A numerical vector containing the corresponding states

Details

Given an OTS of length T with range \mathcal{S}=\{s_0, s_1, s_2, \ldots, s_n\} (s_0 < s_1 < s_2 < \ldots < s_n), \overline{X}_t=\{\overline{X}_1,\ldots, \overline{X}_T\}, the function computes the vector \widehat{\boldsymbol p} =(\widehat{p}_0, \ldots, \widehat{p}_n), with \widehat{p}_i=\frac{N_i}{T}, where N_i is the number of elements equal to s_i in the realization \overline{X}_t.

Value

A vector with the marginal probabilities.

Author(s)

Ángel López-Oriona, José A. Vilar

References

Weiß CH (2019). “Distance-based analysis of ordinal data and ordinal time series.” Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Examples

vector_mp <- marginal_probabilities(series = AustrianWages$data[[100]],
states = 0 : 5) # Computing the vector of
# marginal probabilities for one series in dataset AustrianWages

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