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Hypergeometric {stats}

The Hypergeometric Distribution
Package: 
stats
Version: 
R 3.0.1

Description

Density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the hypergeometric distribution.

Usage

dhyper(x, m, n, k, log = FALSE)
phyper(q, m, n, k, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
qhyper(p, m, n, k, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
rhyper(nn, m, n, k)

Arguments

x, q
vector of quantiles representing the number of white balls drawn without replacement from an urn which contains both black and white balls.
m
the number of white balls in the urn.
n
the number of black balls in the urn.
k
the number of balls drawn from the urn.
p
probability, it must be between 0 and 1.
nn
number of observations. If length(nn) > 1, the length is taken to be the number required.
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].

Details

The hypergeometric distribution is used for sampling without replacement. The density of this distribution with parameters m, n and k (named Np, N-Np, and n, respectively in the reference below) is given by p(x) = choose(m, x) choose(n, k-x) / choose(m+n, k) for x = 0, ..., k.

The quantile is defined as the smallest value x such that F(x) ≥ p, where F is the distribution function.

Values

dhyper gives the density, phyper gives the distribution function, qhyper gives the quantile function, and rhyper generates random deviates.

Invalid arguments will result in return value NaN, with a warning.

The length of the result is determined by n for rhyper, and is the maximum of the lengths of the numerical parameters for the other functions. The numerical parameters other than n are recycled to the length of the result. Only the first elements of the logical parameters are used.

References

Johnson, N. L., Kotz, S., and Kemp, A. W. (1992) Univariate Discrete Distributions, Second Edition. New York: Wiley.

See Also

Distributions for other standard distributions.

Examples

m <- 10; n <- 7; k <- 8
x <- 0:(k+1)
rbind(phyper(x, m, n, k), dhyper(x, m, n, k))
all(phyper(x, m, n, k) == cumsum(dhyper(x, m, n, k)))  # FALSE
## but error is very small:
signif(phyper(x, m, n, k) - cumsum(dhyper(x, m, n, k)), digits = 3)

Documentation reproduced from R 3.0.1. License: GPL-2.