truncnormbayes

0.0.3

Estimates Moments for a Truncated Normal Distribution using 'Stan'

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Overview

About

Maintained by Peter SolymosFirst published 2022-08-223 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Finds the posterior modes for the mean and standard deviation for a truncated normal distribution with one or two known truncation points. The method used extends Bayesian methods for parameter estimation for a singly truncated normal distribution under the Jeffreys prior (see Zhou X, Giacometti R, Fabozzi FJ, Tucker AH (2014). "Bayesian estimation of truncated data with applications to operational risk measurement". doi:10.1080/14697688.2012.752103). This package additionally allows for a doubly truncated normal distribution.

Install

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

install.packages("truncnormbayes", 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("mathurlabstanford/truncnormbayes")

Development version from mathurlabstanford/truncnormbayes. 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-truncnormbayes

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-truncnormbayes

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

Health

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 100%

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GitHub ↗ mathurlabstanford/truncnormbayes

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 3.4.0

Imports (7)

methodsRcpp RcppParallel Rdpack rstan rstantoolsstats

LinkingTo (6)

BH Rcpp RcppEigen RcppParallel rstan StanHeaders (>= 2.18.0)

Suggests (3)

testthat truncnorm withr

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People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Peter Solymos

Maintainer, Contributor · added in 0.0.3

Authors (2)

Mika Braginsky

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Leon Tran

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Contributors (2)

Peter Solymos

Maintainer, Contributor · added in 0.0.3

Maya Mathur

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Package metadata

First published: 2022-08-22
Total releases: 3 / 4 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 20 KB
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