Density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the scaled and shifted Student's t distribution, parameterized by degrees of freedom (df), location (mu), and scale (sigma).

dstudent_t(x, df, mu = 0, sigma = 1, log = FALSE)

pstudent_t(q, df, mu = 0, sigma = 1, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)

qstudent_t(p, df, mu = 0, sigma = 1, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)

rstudent_t(n, df, mu = 0, sigma = 1)

## Arguments

x vector of quantiles. degrees of freedom ($$> 0$$, maybe non-integer). df = Inf is allowed. Location parameter (median) Scale parameter logical; if TRUE, probabilities p are given as log(p). vector of quantiles. logical; if TRUE (default), probabilities are $$P[X \le x]$$, otherwise, $$P[X > x]$$. logical; if TRUE, probabilities p are given as log(p). vector of probabilities. number of observations. If length(n) > 1, the length is taken to be the number required.

## Value

• dstudent_t gives the density

• pstudent_t gives the cumulative distribution function (CDF)

• qstudent_t gives the quantile function (inverse CDF)

• rstudent_t generates random draws.

The length of the result is determined by n for rstudent_t, and is the maximum of the lengths of the numerical arguments for the other functions.

The numerical arguments other than n are recycled to the length of the result. Only the first elements of the logical arguments are used.

parse_dist() and parsing distribution specs and the stat_dist_slabinterval() family of stats for visualizing them.

## Examples


library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(forcats)

expand.grid(
df = c(3,5,10,30),
scale = c(1,1.5)
) %>%
ggplot(aes(y = 0, dist = "student_t", arg1 = df, arg2 = 0, arg3 = scale, color = ordered(df))) +
stat_dist_slab(p_limits = c(.01, .99), fill = NA) +
scale_y_continuous(breaks = NULL) +
facet_grid( ~ scale) +
labs(
title = "dstudent_t(x, df, 0, sigma)",
subtitle = "Scale (sigma)",
y = NULL,
x = NULL
) +
theme_ggdist() +
theme(axis.title = element_text(hjust = 0))