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-% Generated by roxygen2 (4.1.1): do not edit by hand
+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
% Please edit documentation in R/distrib.R
\name{lossdistrib}
\alias{lossdistrib}
@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ A vector q such that \eqn{q_k=\Pr(S=k)}
}
\description{
\code{lossdistrib} computes the probability distribution of a sum
-of independent Bernouilli variables with unequal probabilities.
+of independent Bernouilli variables with unequal probabilities
+(also called the Poisson-Binomial distribution).
}
\details{
We compute the probability distribution of \eqn{S = \sum_{i=1}^n X_i}
where \eqn{X_i} is Bernouilli(\eqn{p_i}). This uses the simple recursive
algorithm of Andersen, Sidenius and Basu
}
-