A helper function for the S3 method fit_uniform — fit_uniform_helper • HistogramZoo

A helper function for the S3 method fit_uniform

Usage

fit_uniform_helper(
  x,
  interval_start,
  interval_end,
  interval_midpoint,
  metric = c("mle", "jaccard", "intersection", "ks", "mse", "chisq")
)

Arguments

x: numeric vector representing the density of a histogram
interval_start: starting coordinates for the bins
interval_end: ending coordinates for the bins
interval_midpoint: bin midpoints
metric: one of mle, jaccard, intersection, ks, mse, chisq

Value

a list with the following data

par: a character string denoting the region_id of the Histogram
dist: the distribution name
metric: the metric used to fit the distribution
value: the fitted value of the metric function
dens: a function that returns the density of the fitted distribution