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frechet

Frechet Distribution Family Function


Description

Maximum likelihood estimation of the 2-parameter Frechet distribution.

Usage

frechet(location = 0, lscale = "loglink", lshape = logofflink(offset = -2),
        iscale = NULL, ishape = NULL, nsimEIM = 250, zero = NULL)

Arguments

location

Numeric. Location parameter. It is called a below.

lscale, lshape

Link functions for the parameters; see Links for more choices.

iscale, ishape, zero, nsimEIM

See CommonVGAMffArguments for information.

Details

The (3-parameter) Frechet distribution has a density function that can be written

f(y) = ((s*b) / (y-a)^2) * exp[-(b/(y-a))^s] * [b/(y-a)]^(s-1)

for y > a and scale parameter b > 0. The positive shape parameter is s. The cumulative distribution function is

F(y) = exp[-(b/(y-a))^s].

The mean of Y is a + b*gamma(1-1/s) for s > 1 (these are returned as the fitted values). The variance of Y is b^2 * [gamma(1 - 2/s) - gamma(1 - 1/s)^2] for s > 2.

Family frechet has a known, and log(b) and log(s - 2) are the default linear/additive predictors. The working weights are estimated by simulated Fisher scoring.

Value

An object of class "vglmff" (see vglmff-class). The object is used by modelling functions such as vglm and vgam.

Warning

Family function frechet may fail for low values of the shape parameter, e.g., near 2 or lower.

Author(s)

T. W. Yee

References

Castillo, E., Hadi, A. S., Balakrishnan, N. Sarabia, J. S. (2005). Extreme Value and Related Models with Applications in Engineering and Science, Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley-Interscience.

See Also

Examples

## Not run: 
set.seed(123)
fdata <- data.frame(y1 = rfrechet(nn <- 1000, shape = 2 + exp(1)))
with(fdata, hist(y1))
fit2 <- vglm(y1 ~ 1, frechet, data = fdata, trace = TRUE)
coef(fit2, matrix = TRUE)
Coef(fit2)
head(fitted(fit2))
with(fdata, mean(y1))
head(weights(fit2, type = "working"))
vcov(fit2)

## End(Not run)

VGAM

Vector Generalized Linear and Additive Models

v1.1-5
GPL-3
Authors
Thomas Yee [aut, cre], Cleve Moler [ctb] (author of several LINPACK routines)
Initial release
2021-01-13

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