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estimate.probability

Estimate Probability Vectors From Count Vectors


Description

This function takes a numeric count vector and returns estimated probabilities of the corresponding counts.

The following probability estimation methods are implemented in this function:

  • method = "empirical" : generates the relative frequency of the data x/sum(x).

Usage

estimate.probability(x, method = "empirical")

Arguments

x

a numeric vector storing count values.

method

a character string specifying the estimation method tht should be used to estimate probabilities from input counts.

Value

a numeric probability vector.

Author(s)

Hajk-Georg Drost

Examples

# generate a count vector
x <- runif(100)

# generate a probability vector from corresponding counts
# method = "empirical"
x.prob <- estimate.probability(x, method = "empirical")

philentropy

Similarity and Distance Quantification Between Probability Functions

v0.4.0
GPL-2
Authors
Hajk-Georg Drost [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1567-306X>)
Initial release
2020-01-09

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