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Uniform {stats}

The Uniform Distribution
Package: 
stats
Version: 
R 2.15.3

Description

These functions provide information about the uniform distribution on the interval from min to max. dunif gives the density, punif gives the distribution function qunif gives the quantile function and runif generates random deviates.

Usage

dunif(x, min = 0, max = 1, log = FALSE)
punif(q, min = 0, max = 1, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
qunif(p, min = 0, max = 1, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
runif(n, min = 0, max = 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.
min, max
lower and upper limits of the distribution. Must be finite.
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

If min or max are not specified they assume the default values of   and 1 respectively.

The uniform distribution has density f(x) = 1/(max-min) for min ≤ x ≤ max.

For the case of u := min == max, the limit case of X == u is assumed, although there is no density in that case and dunif will return NaN (the error condition).

runif will not generate either of the extreme values unless max = min or max-min is small compared to min, and in particular not for the default arguments.

Values

dunif gives the density, punif gives the distribution function, qunif gives the quantile function, and runif generates random deviates. The length of the result is determined by n for runif, 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.

Note

The characteristics of output from pseudo-random number generators (such as precision and periodicity) vary widely. See .Random.seed for more information on R's random number generation algorithms.

See Also

RNG about random number generation in R.

Distributions for other standard distributions.

Examples

u <- runif(20)
 
## The following relations always hold :
punif(u) == u
dunif(u) == 1
 
var(runif(10000))  #- ~ = 1/12 = .08333

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