poibin : The Poisson Binomial Distribution

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Abstract

Implementation of both the exact and approximation methods for computing the cdf of the Poisson binomial distribution as described in Hong (2013) . It also provides the pmf, quantile function, and random number generation for the Poisson binomial distribution. The C code for fast Fourier transformation (FFT) is written by R Core Team (2019), which implements the FFT algorithm in Singleton (1969) .

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Authors: Yili Hong iD ORCID 0000-0003-1720-9540; R Core Team
Publication date:29/10/2012
Document type:Dataset
Language:English
DOI: 10.32614/cran.package.poibin
Open access: Open access Gold: open access journal – Open access full text
Cited by:9
Subjects:
Probability and Statistical Research (Physical Sciences > Mathematics > Statistics and Probability)
Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (Physical Sciences > Mathematics > Statistics and Probability)
Data Analysis with R (Physical Sciences > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence)
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