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Beta Distribution Explorer

By RaphT, Feb 2015 Try out the explorer here

The Beta Distribution Family

The Beta distribution is a family of distributions:

  • Continuously defined in the [0,1] interval
  • Controlled by two positive shape parameters alpha and beta
  • Used to model random variables limited to a finite length interval

Examples of beta distribution

Explorer work flow

Simulates a beta distribution based on a set of parameters Uses Betareg to fit alpha and beta on the simulated distribution Displays the distribution and the theoretical and fitted density functions 
alpha = 2; beta = 3; dist = data.frame(x = rbeta(100, alpha, beta))

model = betareg(x~., link = "logit", link.phi = "log", data = dist)

ggplot(dist, aes(x=x)) + geom_histogram(aes(y=..density..), breaks=seq(0,1,by=0.011))+
  stat_function(fun=dbeta, args=list(shape1=alpha, shape2 = beta),col = "red")+
  stat_function(fun=dbeta, args=list(shape1=alpha.fitted, shape2 = beta.fitted),col = "green")

Explorer Options

Interactively change the value of alpha and beta via sliders Interactively change the number of samples in the distribution Choose the standard or alternative parametrization of the distribution

   1. The standard directly uses alpha and beta

   2. The alternative uses mu (location) and phi (dispersion)

Future work

Add the possibility to open and fit custom data set

Acknowledgments

This webpage helped me get the two columns to work