[Rd] request for comments --- package "distr" --- S4 Classes for Distributions

[Matthias Kohl]

Peter Dalgaard schrieb:

>"Warnes, Gregory R" <gregory_r_warnes at groton.pfizer.com> writes:
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>>>as subclasses of  either of the two the subclasses 
>>>"AbscontDistribution" or
>>>" DiscreteDistribution".
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>>It is not at all clear to me what an 'AbscontDistribution' is.  Perhaps you
>>are referring to a continuous distribution?
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>Absolutely continuous. This is slightly more restrictive than just
>having a continuous distribution function, effectively meaning that
>the density can be defined (with respect to Lebesgue measure on some
>interval, usually).
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>Counterexamples are pathological, the sort of thing you challenge 2nd
>year math/stat students to think up, but I can't say that I can
>remember what they'd look like.
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I think the most common example is the Cantor distribution.
See for example:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/Cantor_function