[R] package implementing continuous binomial?

[Benjamin Tyner]

Thanks David! I'll take a look at zipfR.

Regards
Ben

On 05/07/2015 03:10 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
> On May 6, 2015, at 7:00 PM, Benjamin Tyner wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm wondering if anyone is aware of an R package implementing (i.e.,
>> providing a pdf, cdf, and/or quantile function) for the continuous
>> binomial distribution? Specifically the one characterized here:
>>
>> http://www2.math.uni-paderborn.de/fileadmin/Mathematik/AG-Indlekofer/Workshop/Satellite_meeting/ilenko.pdf
>>
>> Figured I would check here first, before attempting to code it up myself.
> I found that reading the ArXiv version of that material was easier to understand:
>
> http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5990
>
> zipfR package has an implementation of the incomplete beta function that might make some of the coding of the pdf and cdf more simple. 
>
> Searching done with Graves' very useful utility package: 
>
> library('sos')
> findFn("incomplete beta function")
>
> (I did't think that doing a search on "continuous Binomial" was likely to be helpful, but I tried it anyway and did not find any functions named "continuous binomial" in their help page titles.)
>