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Sorry, forgot to send this to the list originally. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Waters [mailto:dr.mike at ntlworld.com] Sent: 06 May 2005 18:40 To: 'Campbell' Subject: RE: [R] distance between distributions -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Campbell Sent: 06 May 2005 11:19 To:

Dear R-Users, I have the CDF of a discrete probability distribution. I now observe a change in this CDF at one point. I would like to find a new CDF such that it has the shortest Kullback-Leibler Distance to the original CDF and respects my new observation. Is there an existing package in R which will let me do this ? Google searches based on entropy revealed nothing. Kind regards, Tolga

I am trying to calculate a Kullback-Leibler divergence from two vectors with integers but get NA as a result when trying to calulate the measure. Why? x <- cbind(stuff$X, morestuff$X) x[1:5,] [,1] [,2] [1,] 293 938 [2,] 293 942 [3,] 297 949 [4,] 290 956 [5,] 294 959 KLdiv(x) [,1] [,2] [1,] 0 NA [2,] NA 0 Best, Ralf

I am performing some analysis over a large data frame and would like to conduct repeated analysis over grouped-up subsets. How can I do that? Here some example code for clarification: require("flexmix") # for Kullback-Leibler divergence n <- 23 groups <- c(1,2,3) mydata <- data.frame( sequence=c(1:n), data1=c(rnorm(n)), data2=c(rnorm(n)), group=rep(sample(groups, n,

Hey, I want to draw several plots sequently, but have to make them dispaly in one figure. So how to achieve this? Thanks. Fred

Hi there, I'm trying to find the KL divergence measure between a prior and it's posterior distributions, and I'm using the KLdiv method in the flexmix package. plese see the example below: require(flexmix) x=seq(-4,4,length=100) d1=dnorm(x,0,1) d2=dunif(x,-3,3) y=cbind(d1,d2) kl=KLdiv(y) but let say, x1=seq(-5,5,length=100) d3=dunif(x1,-3,3) y1=cbind(d1,d3) kl1=KLdiv(y1) Notice

Hi, I have a vector or random variables and I'm estimating the density using "bkde" function in the KernSmooth package. The out put contains two vectors (x and y), and the R documentation calls y as the density estimates, but my y-values are not exact density etstimates (since these are numbers larger than 1)! what is y here? Is it possible to get the true estimated density at each

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Hello, I'd like to say that it's clear when an independent variable can be ruled out generally speaking; on the other hand in R's AIC with bbmle, if one finds a better AIC value for a model without the given independent variable, versus the same model with, can we say that the independent variable is not likely to be significant(in the ordinary sense!)? That is, having made a lot of

A new version of gss, version 0.8-2, is on CRAN now. Numerous new functionalities have been added since my last r-announce post. An ssanova1 suite has been added since version 0.7-4. It implements low-dimensional approximations of the smoothing spline ANOVA models of the ssanova suite. ssanova1 scales much better than ssanova with large sample sizes. A gssanova1 suite is added for non

A new version of gss, version 0.8-2, is on CRAN now. Numerous new functionalities have been added since my last r-announce post. An ssanova1 suite has been added since version 0.7-4. It implements low-dimensional approximations of the smoothing spline ANOVA models of the ssanova suite. ssanova1 scales much better than ssanova with large sample sizes. A gssanova1 suite is added for non

Dear R users, I used sm.density function in the sm package and kde2d() in the MASS package to estimate the bivariate density. Then I calculated the Kullback leibler divergence meassure between a distribution and the each of the estimated densities, but the asnwers are different. Is there any difference between the kde2d and sm.density estimates? if there is a difference, then which is the best

Dear R-Users, my objective is to measure the overlap/divergence of two probability density functions, p1(x) and p2(x). One could apply the chi-square test or determine the potential mixture components and then compare the respective means and sigmas. But I was rather looking for a simple measure of similarity. Therefore, I used the concept of 'intrinsic discrepancy' which is defined as:

Dear R users, According Brockwell & Davis (1991, Section 9.3, p.304), the penalty term for computing the AIC criteria is "p+q+1" in the context of a zero-mean ARMA(p,q) time series model. They arrived at this criterion (with this particular penalty term) estimating the Kullback-Leibler discrepancy index. In practice, the user usually chooses the model whose estimated index is

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Hello, I'm trying to use AIC to choose between 2 models with positive, continuous response variables and different error distributions (specifically a Gamma GLM with log link and a normal linear model for log(y)). I understand that in some cases it may not be possible (or necessary) to discriminate between these two distributions. However, for the normal linear model I noticed a discrepancy

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Hi all, x <- cbind(rnorm(500),rnorm(500)) KLdiv(x, eps=1e-4) KLdiv(x, eps=1e-5) KLdiv(x, eps=1e-6) KLdiv(x, eps=1e-7) KLdiv(x, eps=1e-8) KLdiv(x, eps=1e-9) KLdiv(x, eps=1e-10) ... KLdiv(x, eps=1e-100) ... KLdiv(x, eps=1e-1000) When calling flexmix::KLdiv using the given code I get results with increasing value the smaller I pick the accuracy parameter 'eps' until finally reaching