urhyper: UNU.RAN Hypergeometric random variate generator
Description
UNU.RAN random variate generator for the Hypergeometric distribution.
It also allows sampling from the truncated distribution.
[Special Generator] -- Sampling Function: Hypergeometric.
Usage
urhyper(nn, m, n, k, lb=max(0,k-n), ub=min(k,m))
Arguments
nn
number of observations.
m
the number of white balls in the urn.
n
the number of black balls in the urn.
k
the number of balls drawn from the urn.
lb
lower bound of (truncated) distribution.
ub
upper bound of (truncated) distribution.
Details
The Hypergeometric distribution is used for sampling without
replacement. The density of this distribution with parameters
m, n and k (named $Np$, $N-Np$, and
$n$, respectively in the reference below) is given by
$$p(x) = \left. {m \choose x}{n \choose k-x} \right/ {m+n \choose k}$$
for $x = 0, \ldots, k$.
The generation algorithm uses guide table based inversion. The parameters
lb and ub can be used to generate variates from
the Hypergeometric distribution truncated to the interval (lb,ub).
References
W. H"ormann, J. Leydold, and G. Derflinger (2004):
Automatic Nonuniform Random Variate Generation.
Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg
See Also
runif and .Random.seed about random number
generation, unuran for the UNU.RAN class, and
rhyper for the Rbuilt-in generator.