Matrix of alpha terms used internally by the different Weibull count
functions.
Usage
alphagen(cc, jrow, ncol)
Value
jrow x ncol (lower triangular) matrix of
\(\alpha_j^n\) terms defined in McShane(2008).
Arguments
cc
numeric, shape parameter.
jrow
numeric, number of rows of the alpha matrix. See formulae (11) in
McShane(2008).
ncol
numeric, number of columns of the alpha matrix. Note that the
first column corresponds to \(n=0\), \(n\) being the count value, see
formulae (11) in McShane(2008).
Details
It is usually advisable to compute the alpha terms a minimum number of times
as it may be time consuming in general. Note that the alpha terms only depend
on the shape (c) parameter