R: Auxiliary functions for pitman

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## Auxiliary functions for pitman

### Description

Auxiliary functions for `pitman`.

### Usage

      pdens(z, x, dfunction, ...)
      sdens(z, x, dfunction, ...)
      dens(x, dfunction, ...)

### Arguments

`z` | numeric vector.
`x` | numeric vector.
`dfunction` | a density function defining the distribution for which the Pitman estimator is computed.
`...` | further arguments to be passed on to the density function `dfunction`.

### Details

dens

  product of density values at `x`.

pdens

  vector of `z*dens(x-z)`.

sdens

  vector of `dens(x-z)`.

### Value

Numeric value (`dens`) or vector.

### Author(s)

Christian Hennig chrish@stats.ucl.ac.uk http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakche/

### References

Pitman, E.J. (1939) The estimation of the location and scale parameters of a continuous population of any given form. Biometrika 30, 391-421.

### See Also

`pitman`

### Examples

      dens(1:5,dcauchy)
      pdens(1:5,0,dcauchy)
      sdens(1:5,0:2,dcauchy)

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