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GA

Gamma distribution for fitting a GAMLSS

Description

The function GA defines the gamma distribution, a two parameter distribution, for a gamlss.family object to be used in GAMLSS fitting using the function gamlss(). The parameterization used has the mean of the distribution equal to mu and the variance equal to (sigma^2)*(mu^2). The functions dGA, pGA, qGA and rGA define the density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the specific parameterization of the gamma distribution defined by function GA.

Usage

GA(mu.link = "log", sigma.link ="log")
dGA(x, mu = 1, sigma = 1, log = FALSE) 
pGA(q, mu = 1, sigma = 1, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
qGA(p, mu = 1, sigma = 1, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
rGA(n, mu = 1, sigma = 1)

Arguments

`mu.link`	Defines the `mu.link`, with "log" link as the default for the mu parameter, other links are "inverse", "identity" ans "own"
`sigma.link`	Defines the `sigma.link`, with "log" link as the default for the sigma parameter, other link is the "inverse", "identity" and "own"
`x,q`	vector of quantiles
`mu`	vector of location parameter values
`sigma`	vector of scale parameter values
`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]
`p`	vector of probabilities.
`n`	number of observations. If `length(n) > 1`, the length is taken to be the number required

Details

The specific parameterization of the gamma distribution used in GA is

f(y|mu,sigma)=(y^((1/sigma^2)-1)*exp[-y/((sigma^2)*mu)])/((sigma^2*mu)^(1/sigma^2) Gamma(1/sigma^2))

for y>0, μ>0 and σ>0.

Value

GA() returns a gamlss.family object which can be used to fit a gamma distribution in the gamlss() function. dGA() gives the density, pGA() gives the distribution function, qGA() gives the quantile function, and rGA() generates random deviates. The latest functions are based on the equivalent R functions for gamma distribution.

Note

mu is the mean of the distribution in GA. In the function GA, sigma is the square root of the usual dispersion parameter for a GLM gamma model. Hence sigma*mu is the standard deviation of the distribution defined in GA.

Author(s)

Mikis Stasinopoulos, Bob Rigby and Calliope Akantziliotou

References

Rigby, R. A. and Stasinopoulos D. M. (2005). Generalized additive models for location, scale and shape,(with discussion), Appl. Statist., 54, part 3, pp 507-554.

Rigby, R. A., Stasinopoulos, D. M., Heller, G. Z., and De Bastiani, F. (2019) Distributions for modeling location, scale, and shape: Using GAMLSS in R, Chapman and Hall/CRC. An older version can be found in https://www.gamlss.com/.

Stasinopoulos D. M. Rigby R.A. (2007) Generalized additive models for location scale and shape (GAMLSS) in R. Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 23, Issue 7, Dec 2007, https://www.jstatsoft.org/v23/i07.

Stasinopoulos D. M., Rigby R.A., Heller G., Voudouris V., and De Bastiani F., (2017) Flexible Regression and Smoothing: Using GAMLSS in R, Chapman and Hall/CRC.

Examples

GA()# gives information about the default links for the gamma distribution      
# dat<-rgamma(100, shape=1, scale=10) # generates 100 random observations 
# fit a gamlss model
# gamlss(dat~1,family=GA) 
# fits a constant for each parameter mu and sigma of the gamma distribution
newdata<-rGA(1000,mu=1,sigma=1) # generates 1000 random observations
hist(newdata) 
rm(dat,newdata)

gamlss.dist

Distributions for Generalized Additive Models for Location Scale and Shape

v5.3-2

GPL-2 | GPL-3

Authors

Mikis Stasinopoulos [aut, cre, cph], Robert Rigby [aut], Calliope Akantziliotou [ctb], Vlasios Voudouris [ctb], Gillian Heller [ctb], Fernanda De Bastiani [ctb], Raydonal Ospina [ctb], Nicoletta Motpan [ctb], Fiona McElduff [ctb], Majid Djennad [ctb], Marco Enea [ctb], Alexios Ghalanos [ctb], Christos Argyropoulos [ctb], Almond Stocker [ctb], Jens Lichter [ctb], Stanislaus Stadlmann [ctb]

Initial release

2021-03-08

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