A class for samples of a probability distribution

This extended FLQuant class holds both a measure of central tendendy (mean, median) and of dispersion (tipically variance), to be later used to generate, for example, random numbers with those mean and variances.

Usage

FLQuantDistr(object, var, ...)

# S4 method for ANY,ANY
FLQuantDistr(object, var, ...)

# S4 method for FLQuant,FLQuant
FLQuantDistr(object, var, units = object@units, distr = "norm")

Arguments

object

Input numeric object

...

Additonal arguments

Slots

.Data

Unnamed slot for storing the mean (or other measure of expectation) (FLQuant).

var

Variance, or other measure of dispersion, (FLQuant).

distr

Name of the probability distribution, see Details (character).

Validity

slot dims

.Data and var slots must have the same dimensions.

slot dimnames

.Data and var slots must have the same dimnames.

You can inspect the class validity function by using getValidity(getClassDef('FLQuantDistr'))

Accessors

All slots in the class have accessor and replacement methods defined that allow retrieving and substituting individual slots.

The values passed for replacement need to be of the class of that slot. A numeric vector can also be used when replacing FLQuant slots, and the vector will be used to substitute the values in the slot, but not its other attributes.

The contents of the unnamed slot (.Data) can be accessed through the e() method, see Example below.

Constructor

A construction method exists for this class that can take named arguments for any of its slots. All slots are then created to match the requirements of the class validity. If an unnamed FLQuant object is provided, this is used for the .Data slot.

Methods

Methods exist for various calculations based on values stored in the class:

Arith

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Arithmetic

The methods under the Arith group have been defined for objects of this class, both for operations between two FLQuantDistr objects and with objects of class FLQuant (FLArray) as follows:

+, FLQuantDistr,FLArray

.

-, FLQuantDistr,FLArray

.

, FLQuantDistr,FLArray. /, FLQuantDistr,FLArray. +, FLQuantDistr,FLQuantDistr. -, FLQuantDistr,FLQuantDistr. , FLQuantDistr,FLQuantDistr

.

See also

FLQuant

Author

The FLR Team

Examples

data(ple4)
fqd <- FLQuantDistr(catch.n(ple4), var=catch.n(ple4) * 10, distr='norm')