rdirichlet {bayesm}R Documentation

Draw From Dirichlet Distribution

Description

rdirichlet draws from Dirichlet

Usage

rdirichlet(alpha)

Arguments

alpha vector of Dirichlet parms (must be > 0)

Value

Vector of draws from Dirichlet

Warning

This routine is a utility routine that does not check the input arguments for proper dimensions and type.

Author(s)

Peter Rossi, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Peter.Rossi@ChicagoGsb.edu.

References

For further discussion, see Bayesian Statistics and Marketing by Rossi, Allenby and McCulloch, Chapter 2.
http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/peter.rossi/research/bsm.html

Examples

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set.seed(66)
rdirichlet(c(rep(3,5)))

[Package bayesm version 2.0-8 Index]