[R] Questions on pareto

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Wed Sep 16 14:40:26 CEST 2009


The other package that I can think of that you might want to  
investigate if you are attempting to construct bivariate distributions  
is the copula package.

-- 
David.
On Sep 15, 2009, at 10:27 PM, TsubasaZero wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot. I think this is what I want.
>
> actuar package get more distributions.
>
> Zero~
>
>
> David Winsemius wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sep 15, 2009, at 1:09 PM, TsubasaZero wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I had generated 1000 random variates (u,v), and I would like to find
>>> the
>>> corresponding (x,y) for a bivariate pareto distribution. Which
>>> x=inverse
>>> pareto of u and y=inverse pareto of v.
>>>
>>> What is the code I should use to find (x,y).
>>
>> Perhaps:
>>
>> ??"Pareto"
>>
>> On my machine it offers a choice of two packages (actuar and VGAM)
>> that offer
>> Pareto functions. But ?? only searches installed packages, so this
>> would be
>> more general:
>>
>>> library(sos)
>>> ???Pareto
>> retrieving page 1:
>>  found 187 matches; retrieving 10 pages
>> 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
>>
>> Or the old fashioned way with r-search... hint: put it on your  
>> browser
>> toolbar:
>>
>> http://search.r-project.org/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=pareto&max=100&result=normal&sort=score&idxname=functions&idxname=Rhelp08&idxname=views
>>
>> --
>> David Winsemius, MD
>> Heritage Laboratories
>> West Hartford, CT
>>
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David Winsemius, MD
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West Hartford, CT




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