stats (version 3.1.3)

Logistic: The Logistic Distribution

Description

Density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the logistic distribution with parameters location and scale.

Usage

dlogis(x, location = 0, scale = 1, log = FALSE) plogis(q, location = 0, scale = 1, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE) qlogis(p, location = 0, scale = 1, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE) rlogis(n, location = 0, scale = 1)

Arguments

x, q
vector of quantiles.
p
vector of probabilities.
n
number of observations. If length(n) > 1, the length is taken to be the number required.
location, scale
location and scale parameters.
log, log.p
logical; if TRUE, probabilities p are given as log(p).
lower.tail
logical; if TRUE (default), probabilities are $P[X \le x]$, otherwise, $P[X > x]$.

Value

dlogis gives the density, plogis gives the distribution function, qlogis gives the quantile function, and rlogis generates random deviates.The length of the result is determined by n for rlogis, and is the maximum of the lengths of the numerical arguments for the other functions.The numerical arguments other than n are recycled to the length of the result. Only the first elements of the logical arguments are used.

Source

[dpq]logis are calculated directly from the definitions. rlogis uses inversion.

Details

If location or scale are omitted, they assume the default values of 0 and 1 respectively.

The Logistic distribution with location $= m$ and scale $= s$ has distribution function $$ F(x) = \frac{1}{1 + e^{-(x-\mu)/\sigma}}% $$ and density $$ f(x)= \frac{1}{\sigma}\frac{e^{(x-\mu)/\sigma}}{(1 + e^{(x-\mu)/\sigma})^2}% $$

It is a long-tailed distribution with mean $m$ and variance $\pi^2 /3 s^2$.

References

Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

Johnson, N. L., Kotz, S. and Balakrishnan, N. (1995) Continuous Univariate Distributions, volume 2, chapter 23. Wiley, New York.

See Also

Distributions for other standard distributions.

Examples

Run this code
var(rlogis(4000, 0, scale = 5))  # approximately (+/- 3)
pi^2/3 * 5^2

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