BCPE {gamlss.dist}R Documentation

Box-Cox Power Exponential distribution for fitting a GAMLSS

Description

This function defines the Box-Cox Power Exponential distribution, a four parameter distribution, for a gamlss.family object to be used for a GAMLSS fitting using the function gamlss(). The functions dBCPE, pBCPE, qBCPE and rBCPE define the density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the Box-Cox Power Exponential distribution. The function checkBCPE can be used, typically when a BCPE model is fitted, to check whether there exit a turning point of the distribution close to zero. It give the number of values of the response below their minimum turning point and also the maximum probability of the lower tail below minimum turning point. [The function Biventer() is the original version of the function suitable only for the untruncated BCPE distribution.] See Rigby and Stasinopoulos (2003) for details.

Usage

BCPE(mu.link = "identity", sigma.link = "log", nu.link = "identity",
          tau.link = "log")
BCPEuntr(mu.link = "identity", sigma.link = "log", nu.link = "identity", 
          tau.link = "log")
dBCPE(x, mu = 5, sigma = 0.1, nu = 1, tau = 2, log = FALSE)
pBCPE(q, mu = 5, sigma = 0.1, nu = 1, tau = 2, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
qBCPE(p, mu = 5, sigma = 0.1, nu = 1, tau = 2, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)          
rBCPE(n, mu = 5, sigma = 0.1, nu = 1, tau = 2)
checkBCPE(obj = NULL, mu = 10, sigma = 0.1, nu = 0.5, tau = 2,...)

Arguments

mu.link Defines the mu.link, with "identity" link as the default for the mu parameter. Other links are "inverse", "log" and "own"
sigma.link Defines the sigma.link, with "log" link as the default for the sigma parameter. Other links are "inverse", "identity" and "own"
nu.link Defines the nu.link, with "identity" link as the default for the nu parameter. Other links are "inverse", "log" and "own"
tau.link Defines the tau.link, with "log" link as the default for the tau parameter. Other links are "logshifted", "identity" and "own"
x,q vector of quantiles
mu vector of location parameter values
sigma vector of scale parameter values
nu vector of nu parameter values
tau vector of tau parameter values
log, log.p logical; if TRUE, probabilities p are given as log(p).
lower.tail logical; if TRUE (default), probabilities are P[X <= x], otherwise, P[X > x]
p vector of probabilities.
n number of observations. If length(n) > 1, the length is taken to be the number required
obj a gamlss BCPE family object
... for extra arguments

Details

The probability density function of the untrucated Box Cox Power Exponential distribution, (BCPE.untr), is defined as

f(y|mu,sigma,nu,tau)=(y^(nu-1)/mu^nu)*(tau/sigma)*exp(-0.5*|z/c|^tau)/(c*2^(1+1/tau)*Gamma(1/tau))

where c=[2^(-2 /tau)*Gamma(1/tau)/Gamma(3/tau)]^0.5, where if nu!=0 then z=[(y/mu)^(nu)-1]/(nu*sigma) else z=log(y/mu)/sigma, for y>0, μ>0, σ>0, nu=(-Inf,+Inf) and tau>0.

The Box-Cox Power Exponential, BCPE, adjusts the above density f(y|mu,sigma,nu,tau for the truncation resulting from the condition y>0. See Rigby and Stasinopoulos (2003) for details.

Value

BCPE() returns a gamlss.family object which can be used to fit a Box Cox Power Exponential distribution in the gamlss() function. dBCPE() gives the density, pBCPE() gives the distribution function, qBCPE() gives the quantile function, and rBCPE() generates random deviates.

Warning

The BCPE.untr distribution may be unsuitable for some combinations of the parameters (mainly for large sigma) where the integrating constant is less than 0.99. A warning will be given if this is the case.

The BCPE distribution is suitable for all combinations of the parameters within their ranges [i.e. mu>0, sigma>0, nu=(-Inf,+Inf) and tau>0 ]

Note

mu, is the median of the distribution, sigma is approximately the coefficient of variation (for small sigma and moderate nu>0), nu controls the skewness and tau the kurtosis of the distribution

Author(s)

Mikis Stasinopoulos, Bob Rigby and Calliope Akantziliotou

References

Rigby, R. A. and Stasinopoulos D. M. (2005). Generalized additive models for location, scale and shape,(with discussion), Appl. Statist., 54, part 3, pp 507-554.

Rigby, R. A. and Stasinopoulos, D. M. (2004). Smooth centile curves for skew and kurtotic data modelled using the Box-Cox Power Exponential distribution. Statistics in Medicine, 23: 3053-3076.

Stasinopoulos D. M. Rigby R. A. and Akantziliotou C. (2006) Instructions on how to use the GAMLSS package in R. Accompanying documentation in the current GAMLSS help files, (see also http://www.gamlss.com/).

Stasinopoulos D. M. Rigby R.A. (2007) Generalized additive models for location scale and shape (GAMLSS) in R. Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 23, Issue 7, Dec 2007, http://www.jstatsoft.org/v23/i07.

See Also

gamlss.family, BCT

Examples

# BCPE()   #
# library(gamlss) 
# data(abdom)
#h<-gamlss(y~cs(x,df=3), sigma.formula=~cs(x,1), family=BCPE, data=abdom) 
#plot(h)
plot(function(x)dBCPE(x, mu=5,sigma=.5,nu=1, tau=3), 0.0, 15, 
 main = "The BCPE  density mu=5,sigma=.5,nu=1, tau=3")
plot(function(x) pBCPE(x, mu=5,sigma=.5,nu=1, tau=3), 0.0, 15, 
 main = "The BCPE  cdf mu=5, sigma=.5, nu=1, tau=3")

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