poibin : The Poisson Binomial Distribution
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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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| 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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| Identifiers: | OpenAlex W4399532745 |
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