rvexp                   package:rv                   R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     'rvexp'

_U_s_a_g_e:

       rvexp(n=1, rate = 1)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

       n: integer: number of variables to generate

    rate: prior distribution for the rate parameter (constant or
          random)

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     'rvexp'

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Jouni Kerman kerman@stat.columbia.edu <URL:
     http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~kerman>

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Kerman, Jouni and Gelman, Andrew. Manipulating and Summarizing
     Posterior Simulations Using Random Variable Objects. Technical
     report, Columbia University, New York.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

       y <- rvexp(1, rate=rvexp(1)) # What marginal distribution does y have now?

