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Lognormal {stats}

The Log Normal Distribution
Package: 
stats
Version: 
R 3.0.1

Description

Density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the log normal distribution whose logarithm has mean equal to meanlog and standard deviation equal to sdlog.

Usage

dlnorm(x, meanlog = 0, sdlog = 1, log = FALSE)
plnorm(q, meanlog = 0, sdlog = 1, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
qlnorm(p, meanlog = 0, sdlog = 1, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
rlnorm(n, meanlog = 0, sdlog = 1)

Arguments

x, q
vector of quantiles.
p
vector of probabilities.
n
number of observations. If length(n) > 1, the length is taken to be the number required.
meanlog, sdlog
mean and standard deviation of the distribution on the log scale with default values of   and 1 respectively.
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 log normal distribution has density f(x) = 1/(√(2 π) σ x) e^-((log x - μ)^2 / (2 σ^2)) where μ and σ are the mean and standard deviation of the logarithm. The mean is E(X) = exp(μ + 1/2 σ^2), the median is med(X) = exp(μ), and the variance Var(X) = exp(2*μ + σ^2)*(exp(σ^2) - 1) and hence the coefficient of variation is sqrt(exp(σ^2) - 1) which is approximately σ when that is small (e.g., σ < 1/2).

Values

dlnorm gives the density, plnorm gives the distribution function, qlnorm gives the quantile function, and rlnorm generates random deviates. The length of the result is determined by n for rlnorm, 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

Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

Johnson, N. L., Kotz, S. and Balakrishnan, N. (1995) Continuous Univariate Distributions, volume 1, chapter 14. Wiley, New York.

Note

The cumulative hazard H(t) = - log(1 - F(t)) is -plnorm(t, r, lower = FALSE, log = TRUE).

See Also

Distributions for other standard distributions, including dnorm for the normal distribution.

Examples

dlnorm(1) == dnorm(0)

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