PoissonBinomial

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Efficient Computation of Ordinary and Generalised Poisson Binomial Distributions

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Overview

About

Maintained by Florian JungeFirst published 2020-01-2217 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Efficient implementations of multiple exact and approximate methods as described in Hong (2013) doi:10.1016/j.csda.2012.10.006, Biscarri, Zhao & Brunner (2018) doi:10.1016/j.csda.2018.01.007 and Zhang, Hong & Balakrishnan (2018) doi:10.1080/00949655.2018.1440294 for computing the probability mass, cumulative distribution and quantile functions, as well as generating random numbers for both the ordinary and generalised Poisson binomial distribution.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("PoissonBinomial", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("fj86/PoissonBinomial")

Development version from fj86/PoissonBinomial. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-poissonbinomial

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-PoissonBinomial

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Repository

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License GPL-3.0 · 34 commits · Last activity 2026-03-06

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First published: 2020-01-22
Total releases: 17 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 98 KB
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