Description of the class disc_phase_type, which represents discrete phase-type distributions.

disc_phase_type(subint_mat = NULL, init_probs = NULL)

Arguments

subint_mat

matrix or NULL (default).

init_probs

vector, a one-row matrix or NULL (default).

Details

disc_phase_type is the generator function for the discrete phase-type distribution class of the same name, which inherits from list. The class is generated by supplying a sub-intensity matrix and an optional initial probability vector. If the initial probabilities are not specified, then a they are automatically generated as the first state having a probability of 1 and the rest a probability of 0.

Examples

subintensity_matrix = matrix(c(0.4, 0, 0, 0.24, 0.4, 0, 0.12, 0.2, 0.5), ncol = 3) disc_phase_type(subintensity_matrix)
#> Warning: The initial probability vector is automatically generated.
#> $subint_mat #> [,1] [,2] [,3] #> [1,] 0.4 0.24 0.12 #> [2,] 0.0 0.40 0.20 #> [3,] 0.0 0.00 0.50 #> #> $init_probs #> [,1] [,2] [,3] #> [1,] 1 0 0 #> #> $defect #> [1] 0 #> #> attr(,"class") #> [1] "disc_phase_type"
#--- subintensity_matrix = matrix(c(0.4, 0, 0, 0.24, 0.4, 0, 0.12, 0.2, 0.5), ncol = 3) initial_probabilities = c(0.9, 0.1, 0) disc_phase_type(subintensity_matrix, initial_probabilities)
#> $subint_mat #> [,1] [,2] [,3] #> [1,] 0.4 0.24 0.12 #> [2,] 0.0 0.40 0.20 #> [3,] 0.0 0.00 0.50 #> #> $init_probs #> [,1] [,2] [,3] #> [1,] 0.9 0.1 0 #> #> $defect #> [1] 0 #> #> attr(,"class") #> [1] "disc_phase_type"