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This function will attempt to estimate the exponential rate parameter given some vector of values. The function will return a list output by default, and if the parameter .auto_gen_empirical is set to TRUE then the empirical data given to the parameter .x will be run through the tidy_empirical() function and combined with the estimated exponential data.

Usage

util_exponential_param_estimate(.x, .auto_gen_empirical = TRUE)

Arguments

.x

The vector of data to be passed to the function. Must be numeric.

.auto_gen_empirical

This is a boolean value of TRUE/FALSE with default set to TRUE. This will automatically create the tidy_empirical() output for the .x parameter and use the tidy_combine_distributions(). The user can then plot out the data using $combined_data_tbl from the function output.

Value

A tibble/list

Details

This function will see if the given vector .x is a numeric vector.

Author

Steven P. Sanderson II, MPH

Examples

library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)

te <- tidy_exponential(.rate = .1) |> pull(y)
output <- util_exponential_param_estimate(te)

output$parameter_tbl
#> # A tibble: 1 × 8
#>   dist_type   samp_size    min   max  mean variance method    rate
#>   <chr>           <int>  <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>    <dbl> <chr>    <dbl>
#> 1 Exponential        50 0.0460  45.0  8.74     66.3 NIST_MME 0.114

output$combined_data_tbl |>
  tidy_combined_autoplot()