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The Asymmetric Laplace Distribution

v1.3.1 · Apr 4, 2021 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

It provides the density, distribution function, quantile function, random number generator, likelihood function, moments and Maximum Likelihood estimators for a given sample, all this for the three parameter Asymmetric Laplace Distribution defined in Koenker and Machado (1999). This is a special case of the skewed family of distributions available in Galarza et.al. (2017) <doi:10.1002/sta4.140> useful for quantile regression.

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Maintainer: ‘Christian E. Galarza <cgalarza88@gmail.com>’

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                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
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                      email = "cgalarza88@gmail.com"),
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                      family = "Lachos",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "hlachos@ime.unicamp.br"))
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  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Christian", "E."),
                      family = "Galarza",
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                     email = "cgalarza88@gmail.com"),
               person(given = c("Victor", "H."),
                      family = "Lachos",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "hlachos@ime.unicamp.br"))
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  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Christian", "E."),
                      family = "Galarza",
                      role = c("aut"
...[truncated]...
                     email = "cgalarza88@gmail.com"),
               person(given = c("Victor", "H."),
                      family = "Lachos",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "hlachos@ime.unicamp.br"))
as necessary.

Code

Structure

Lines of code

638

Files

9

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 178 (27.9%)Docs 460 (72.1%)

API

Exported functions

12

Internal functions

1

Recent export changes

v1.0+12 dALD, pALD, qALD +9 more

Testing & CI

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Return-value doc rate

100%

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100%

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Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

System requirements

C++ standard

License

GPL (>= 2)

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

4

First release

2015-01-27

Latest release

2021-04-04

Avg cadence

605 days

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LOC over versions

v1.0: 637 LOCv1.1: 641 LOCv1.2: 641 LOCv1.3.1: 638 LOC

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Reverse Dependencies (8)

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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies ClusPred chopper copulaSQM qrLMM qrNLMM xpect fitteR lqr ald

Version History

5 tracked
new 1.3.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.3.1 ← 1.2 diff Apr 3, 2021
updated 1.2 ← 1.1 diff Jan 31, 2018
updated 1.1 ← 1.0 diff Jun 5, 2016
new 1.0 Jan 27, 2015