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CAISEr (version 0.3.3)

dummyalgo: Dummy algorithm routine to test the sampling procedures

Description

This is a dummy algorithm routine to test the sampling procedures. It basically returns values according to the distribution function given in distribution.fun with parameters given by distribution.pars.

Usage

dummyalgo(distribution.fun = "rnorm", distribution.pars = list(mean = 0, sd
  = 1), instance)

Arguments

distribution.fun

name of a function that generates random values according to a given distribution, e.g., "rnorm", "runif", "rexp" etc.

distribution.pars

list of named parameters required by the function in distribution.fun. Parameter n (number of points to generate) is unnecessary (this routine always considers n = 1).

instance

instance parameters. This parameter is always ignored, and was only included for compatibility with run_nreps2 and other nreps functions.

Value

a list object with a single field $value, containing a value distributed according to distribution.fun and distribution.pars.