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sklarsomega (version 3.0-2)

qcat: Compute the quantile function for a categorical distribution.

Description

Compute the quantile function for a categorical distribution.

Usage

qcat(pr, p, lower.tail = TRUE, log.pr = FALSE)

Value

qcat returns a vector of quantiles.

Arguments

pr

vector of probabilities.

p

vector of proabilities.

lower.tail

logical; if TRUE (default), probabilities are \(P(X \le x)\), otherwise, \(P(X > x)\).

log.pr

logical; if TRUE, probabilities \(pr\) are handled as log\((pr)\).

Details

This function computes quantiles for the categorical distribution with support \(1, \dots , K\) and probabilities \(p = (p_1, \dots , p_K)'\).