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umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.DiscreteDistributionIntMulti Class Referenceabstract

Classes implementing multi-dimensional discrete distributions over the integers should inherit from this class. More...

Inheritance diagram for umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.DiscreteDistributionIntMulti:
umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.MultinomialDist umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.NegativeMultinomialDist

Public Member Functions

abstract double prob (int[] x)
 Returns the probability mass function \(p(x_1, x_2, …, x_d)\), which should be a real number in \([0,1]\).
double cdf (int x[])
 Computes the cumulative probability function \(F\) of the distribution evaluated at x, assuming the lowest values start at 0, i.e.
int getDimension ()
 Returns the dimension \(d\) of the distribution.
abstract double[] getMean ()
 Returns the mean vector of the distribution, defined as \(\mu_i = E[X_i]\).
abstract double[][] getCovariance ()
 Returns the variance-covariance matrix of the distribution, defined as
\(\sigma_{ij} = E[(X_i - \mu_i)(X_j - \mu_j)]\).
abstract double[][] getCorrelation ()
 Returns the correlation matrix of the distribution, defined as.

Detailed Description

Classes implementing multi-dimensional discrete distributions over the integers should inherit from this class.

It specifies the signature of methods for computing the mass function (or probability) \(p(x_1, x_2, …, x_d) = P[X_1 = x_1, X_2 = x_2, …, X_d = x_d]\) and the cumulative probabilities for a random vector \(X\) with a discrete distribution over the integers.

Definition at line 39 of file DiscreteDistributionIntMulti.java.

Member Function Documentation

◆ cdf()

double umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.DiscreteDistributionIntMulti.cdf ( int x[])

Computes the cumulative probability function \(F\) of the distribution evaluated at x, assuming the lowest values start at 0, i.e.

computes

\[ F (x_1, x_2, …, x_d) = \sum_{s_1=0}^{x_1} \sum_{s_2=0}^{x_2} \cdots\sum_{s_d=0}^{x_d} p(s_1, s_2, …, s_d). \]

Uses the naive implementation, is very inefficient and may underflows.

Reimplemented in umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.MultinomialDist.

Definition at line 58 of file DiscreteDistributionIntMulti.java.

◆ getCorrelation()

abstract double[][] umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.DiscreteDistributionIntMulti.getCorrelation ( )
abstract

Returns the correlation matrix of the distribution, defined as.

\(\rho_{ij} = \sigma_{ij}/\sqrt{\sigma_{ii}\sigma_{jj}}\).

Reimplemented in umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.MultinomialDist, and umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.NegativeMultinomialDist.

◆ getCovariance()

abstract double[][] umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.DiscreteDistributionIntMulti.getCovariance ( )
abstract

Returns the variance-covariance matrix of the distribution, defined as
\(\sigma_{ij} = E[(X_i - \mu_i)(X_j - \mu_j)]\).

Reimplemented in umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.MultinomialDist, and umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.NegativeMultinomialDist.

◆ getDimension()

int umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.DiscreteDistributionIntMulti.getDimension ( )

Returns the dimension \(d\) of the distribution.

Definition at line 89 of file DiscreteDistributionIntMulti.java.

◆ getMean()

abstract double[] umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.DiscreteDistributionIntMulti.getMean ( )
abstract

Returns the mean vector of the distribution, defined as \(\mu_i = E[X_i]\).

Reimplemented in umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.MultinomialDist, and umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.NegativeMultinomialDist.

◆ prob()

abstract double umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.DiscreteDistributionIntMulti.prob ( int[] x)
abstract

Returns the probability mass function \(p(x_1, x_2, …, x_d)\), which should be a real number in \([0,1]\).

Parameters
xvalue at which the mass function must be evaluated
Returns
the mass function evaluated at x

Reimplemented in umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.MultinomialDist, and umontreal.ssj.probdistmulti.NegativeMultinomialDist.


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