Ben, Say you have some variable (x) ~ exp f(x|lambda,theta) where f(x|lambda, theta) = lamba*(e^(minus lambda*(x-theta)))
Lambda is the inverse scale parameter and theta is a location parameter (I erred in calling theta a shape parameter in the original question). John On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Ben Bolker <bol...@ufl.edu> wrote: > John Westbury <jrwestbury <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Hello, > > > > I am new to R and am trying to figure out how to specify an exponential > > distribution with scale and shape parameters. I can specify an > exponential > > distribution with an inverse scale but would like to know how to specify > the > > distribution with a shape parameter as well. > > > > thanks much, > > > > John > > > > Do you mean a gamma distribution? I'm unfamiliar with any > definition of the exponential distribution with more than one > parameter. Can you point to a reference/example somewhere? > > Ben Bolker > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
