PoissonBinomial (version 1.0.2-1)

Poisson-Binomial-package: Exact and Approximate Implementations for Computing the Poisson Binomial Distribution

Description

This package implements various algorithms for computing the probability mass function the cumulative distribution function, quantiles and random numbers of the Poisson binomial distribution.

References

Hong, Y. (2013). On computing the distribution function for the Poisson binomial distribution. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 59, pp. 41-51. doi: 10.1016/j.csda.2012.10.006

Biscarri, W., Zhao, S. D. and Brunner, R. J. (2018) A simple and fast method for computing the Poisson binomial distribution. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 31, pp. 216<U+2013>222. doi: 10.1016/j.csda.2018.01.007

Examples

# NOT RUN {
set.seed(1)
pp <- c(0, 0, runif(995), 1, 1, 1)
dpbinom(NULL, pp)
ppbinom(450:550, pp, method = "DivideFFT")
qpbinom(pp, pp, method = "Convolve")
rpbinom(10, pp, method = "RefinedNormal")
# }