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alpha.compute {LCAextend}

computes cumulative logistic coefficients using probabilities
Package: 
LCAextend
Version: 
1.2

Description

computes cumulative logistic coefficients using probabilities.

Usage

alpha.compute(p)

Arguments

p
a vector of probabilities (positive entries summing to 1).

Details

If p has one value (equal to 1) alpha.compute returns NA, if it has S (S>=2) values, alpha.compute returns S-1 coefficients alpha such that if Y is a random variable taking values in {1,...,S} with probabilities p, coefficients alpha[i] are given by: for all i<=S-1.

Values

The function returns alpha: a vector of S-1 cumulative logistic coefficients.

See Also

alpha.compute is the inverse function of p.compute

Examples

# a vector of probability
p <- c(0,0.2,0,0,0.3,0.4,0.1,0,0)
alpha.compute(p)
#gives -Inf -1.38 0 0 1.38 0 2.19 Inf Inf
p.compute(alpha.compute(rep(1/5,5)))

Documentation reproduced from package LCAextend, version 1.2. License: GPL