R: Detect bounds for density function

detectbound {fitdistrplus} | R Documentation

## Detect bounds for density function

### Description

Manual detection of bounds of parameter of a density function/

### Usage

    detectbound(distname, vstart, obs, fix.arg=NULL, echo=FALSE)

### Arguments

`distname` | A character string `"name"` naming a distribution for which the corresponding density function `dname` must be classically defined.
`vstart` | A named vector giving the initial values of parameters of the named distribution.
`obs` | A numeric vector for non censored data.
`fix.arg` | An optional named vector giving the values of fixed parameters of the named distribution. Default to `NULL`.
`echo` | A logical to show some traces.

### Details

This function manually tests the following bounds : -1, 0, and 1.

### Value

`detectbound` returns a 2-row matrix with the lower bounds in the first row and the upper bounds in the second row.

### Author(s)

Christophe Dutang and Marie-Laure Delignette-Muller.

### References

Delignette-Muller ML and Dutang C (2015), fitdistrplus: An R Package for Fitting Distributions. Journal of Statistical Software, 64(4), 1-34.

### See Also

`fitdist`.

### Examples

    #case where the density returns a Not-an-Numeric value.
    detectbound("exp", c(rate=3), 1:10)
    detectbound("binom", c(size=3, prob=1/2), 1:10)
    detectbound("nbinom", c(size=3, prob=1/2), 1:10)

[Package fitdistrplus version 1.0-9 Index]