Renext (version 3.1-4)

qStat: Quantiles of a test statistic

Description

Quantile of a test statistic.

Usage

qStat(p, n,
         type = c("Greenwood", "Jackson", "logLRGPD", "logLRLomax",
                  "logLRGEV", "logLRFrechet"),
          outNorm = FALSE)

Value

A vector of quantiles.

Arguments

p

Numeric vector of probabilities. Very small values (p < 0.01) or very large ones (p > 0.99) will be truncated as 0.00 or 1.00 to maintain a realistic level of precision.

n

Sample size.

type

The type of statistic, see Details.

outNorm

Logical. If TRUE the output is normalized in a such fashion that its distribution is the asymptotic one (i.e. standard normal in practice). When FALSE, the quantiles are given in the true scale of the statistic: ${\text{CV}}^2$, Jackson. For LR statistics this argument has no impact.

Author

Yves Deville

Details

The function provides an approximation of the distribution for several statistics.

• For "Greenwood", the statistic is Greenwood's statistic. The distribution is that of the squared coefficient of variation ${\text{CV}}^2$ of a sample of size n from the exponential distribution as computed by CV2.

• For "Jackson", the statistic is Jackson's statistic, see Jackson.

• For "logLRGPD" and "logLRLomax", the statistic is the log of the likelihood ratio of a sample from the exponential distribution. The log-likelihoods are for an exponential distribution compared to a GPD with non-zero shape, or to a GPD with positive shape (equivalently, a Lomax distribution).

• For "logLRGEV" and "logLRFrechet", the statistic is the log of the likelihood ratio of a sample from the Gumbel distribution. The log-likelihoods are for a Gumbel distribution compared to a GEV with non-zero shape, or to a GEV with positive shape (equivalently, a Fréchet distribution).

The log of Likelihood Ratios are multiplied by 2, so that they compare to a chi-square statistic with one degree of freedom.

Examples

res <- qStat(n = 40, type = "Greenwood")
plot(res$q, res$p, type = "o")