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PDFEstimator

Multivariate Nonparametric Probability Density Estimator

v4.5 · Aug 24, 2023 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

Farmer, J., D. Jacobs (2108) <DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0196937>. A multivariate nonparametric density estimator based on the maximum-entropy method. Accurately predicts a probability density function (PDF) for random data using a novel iterative scoring function to determine the best fit without overfitting to the sample.

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Maintainer: ‘Jenny Farmer <jfarmer@carolina.rr.com>’

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  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Jenny",
                      family = "Farmer",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "jfarmer@carolina.rr.com"),
               person(given = "Donald",
                      family = "Jacobs",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "djacobs1@uncc.ecu"))
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Maintainer: ‘Jenny Farmer <jfarmer@carolina.rr.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Jenny",
                      family = "Farmer",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "jfarmer@carolina.rr.com"),
               person(given = "Donald",
                      family = "Jacobs",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "djacobs1@uncc.ecu"))
as necessary.

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CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Jenny Farmer <jfarmer@carolina.rr.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Jenny",
                      family = "Farmer",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "jfarmer@carolina.rr.com"),
               person(given = "Donald",
                      family = "Jacobs",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "djacobs1@uncc.ecu"))
as necessary.
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Jenny Farmer <jfarmer@carolina.rr.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Jenny",
                      family = "Farmer",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "jfarmer@carolina.rr.com"),
               person(given = "Donald",
                      family = "Jacobs",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "djacobs1@uncc.ecu"))
as necessary.

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies plot3D MultiRNG PDFEstimator

Version History

new 4.5 Mar 10, 2026
updated 4.5 ← 4.3 diff Aug 23, 2023
updated 4.3 ← 4.1 diff Oct 1, 2022
updated 4.1 ← 4.0 diff Aug 10, 2022
updated 4.0 ← 3.2.1 diff Jul 11, 2022
updated 3.2.1 ← 3.2 diff Mar 29, 2022
updated 3.2 ← 3.1 diff Mar 25, 2022
updated 3.1 ← 3.0 diff Nov 22, 2021
updated 3.0 ← 2.2 diff Aug 20, 2021
updated 2.2 ← 2.1 diff Mar 20, 2021
updated 2.1 ← 2.0 diff Mar 5, 2021
updated 2.0 ← 0.1-3 diff Jan 27, 2021
updated 0.1-3 ← 0.1-2 diff Apr 17, 2019
updated 0.1-2 ← 0.1-1 diff Apr 7, 2019
updated 0.1-1 ← 0.1-0 diff Nov 17, 2018
new 0.1-0 Oct 13, 2018