GammaDist {base}R Documentation

The Gamma Distribution

Description

Density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the Gamma distribution with parameters shape and scale.

Usage

dgamma(x, shape, scale=1, log = FALSE)
pgamma(q, shape, scale=1, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
qgamma(p, shape, scale=1, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
rgamma(n, shape, scale=1)

Arguments

x, q vector of quantiles.
p vector of probabilities.
n number of observations.
shape, scale shape and scale parameters.
log, log.p logical; if TRUE, probabilities p are given as log(p).
lower.tail logical; if TRUE (default), probabilities are P[X <= x], otherwise, P[X > x].

Details

If scale is omitted, it assumes the default value of 1.

The Gamma distribution with parameters shape = a and scale = b has density

f(x) = 1/(b^a Gamma(a)) x^(a-1) e^-(x/b)

for x > 0, a > 0 and b > 0.

Value

dgamma gives the density, pgamma gives the distribution function qgamma gives the quantile function, and rgamma generates random deviates.

Note

The cumulative hazard H(t) = - log(1 - F(t)) is -pgamma(t, ..., lower = FALSE, log = TRUE).

See Also

gamma for the Gamma function, dbeta for the Beta distribution and dchisq for the chi-square distribution which is a special case of the Gamma distribution.

Examples

-log(dgamma(1:4, shape=1))
p <- (1:9)/10
pgamma(qgamma(p,shape=2), shape=2)
1 - 1/exp(qgamma(p, shape=1))

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