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Format: VoseDUniform({xi}, U)
The Discrete Uniform distribution is a special case of the Discrete distribution. It describes a variable that can take one of several explicit discrete values with equal probabilities of taking any particular value.
An example of the Discrete Uniform distribution is shown below:
It is not often that we come across a variable that can take one of several values each with equal probability. However, there are a couple of modeling techniques that require that capability:
Resampling in univariate non-parametric Bootstrap.
Creating an empirical distribution directly from a data set, i.e. where we believe that the list of data values is a good representation of the randomness of the variable.
The algorithm for generating values from the DUniform is relatively slow because it is simply selecting values from a list. You should therefore avoid having large arrays of this function in your model if possible.
VoseDUniform generates values from this distribution or calculates a percentile
VoseDUniformObject constructs a distribution object for this distribution
VoseDUniformProb returns the probability density or cumulative distribution function for this distribution
VoseDUniformProb10 returns the log10 of the probability density or cumulative distribution function
