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lmomco (version 2.2.5)

quast3: Quantile Function of the 3-Parameter Student t Distribution

Description

This function computes the quantiles of the 3-parameter Student t distribution given parameters ($\xi$, $\alpha$, $\nu$) computed by parst3. There is no explicit solution for the quantile function for nonexceedance probability F but built-in R functions can be used. For $\nu \ge 1000$, one can use qnorm(F, mean=U, sd=A) and for U = $\xi$ and A = $\alpha$ for $1.000001 \le \nu \le 1000$, one can use U + A*qt(F, N) for N = $\nu$ and where the R function qnorm is the Normal distribution and R function qt is the 1-parameter Student t distribution.

Usage

quast3(f, para, paracheck=TRUE)

Arguments

f
Nonexceedance probability ($0 \le F \le 1$).
para
The parameters from parst3 or vec2par.
paracheck
A logical on whether the parameters are checked for validity. Overriding of this check might be extremely important and needed for use of the quantile function in the context of TL-moments with nonzero trimming.

Value

Quantile value for nonexceedance probability $F$.

References

Asquith, W.H., 2011, Distributional analysis with L-moment statistics using the R environment for statistical computing: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, ISBN 978--146350841--8.

See Also

cdfst3, pdfst3, lmomst3, parst3

Examples

Run this code
lmr <- lmoms(c(123,34,4,654,37,78))
quast3(0.75,parst3(lmr))

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