quantile.rv {rv} | R Documentation |
quantile.rv
returns
the distribution of the quantile of a random vector
(as a random variable).
## S3 method for class 'rv': quantile(x, ...)
x |
an object |
... |
further arguments passed to or from other methods |
A random vector (rv object) with components giving the distribution of the desired quantiles.
quantile.rv
does not return the simulated quantiles of
the quantiles of the argument x
.
This is done by rvquantile
.
Jouni Kerman kerman@stat.columbia.edu http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~kerman
Kerman, Jouni and Gelman, Andrew. Manipulating and Summarizing Posterior Simulations Using Random Variable Objects. Technical report, Columbia University, New York.
x <- rvnorm(30) quantile(x)