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2. Allowed distributions of the state entries

In the current version of the code, the all the distributions are restricted to belong to some parametric families listed in Table 1 below.

Table 1. Allowed families of distributions

 

#	ID	Name	Range
1	BT	Beta	(0,1)
2	DS	Discrete (m)	{0;1;...;m-1}
3	BN	Bernoulli	{0;1}
4	GS	Normal	(-,)
5	RL	Rayleigh	(0,)
6	PS	Poisson	{0,1,2,...}

According to the above restriction, the distribution of the state vector Y is completely identified by the following data:

number k  of different groups of identically distributed entries in  Y

collection of ID's ID[i] and parameters  v_i i=1,...m, specifying the distribution of entries from a single group.

We refer to the collection

ID = {ID[i] | i=1,...,k}

as to the type of the distribution of Y, and to the vector

v = {v_i | i=1,...,k}

as to the actual parameter vector of the distribution of  Y.

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