marl (version 1.0)

sim.negbin: Simulates data from a mixture of Negative Binomial distribution

Description

This function simulates data from a mixture of Negative Binomial distribution. The parameterization mu and size is used.

Usage

sim.negbin(mu, size, n.obs, n.val)

Arguments

mu

a vector of Nagative Binomial means used for simulating data

size

Size or overdispersion parameter. It is a fixed positive number.

n.obs

Number of observations to simulate.

n.val

Length of each observation.

Details

If necessary readers are referred to rnbinom function in R.

References

rnbinom.

Examples

dat.sim <- sim.negbin(c(3,7),2,5,15)