: Continuous

Continuous

The Empirical option under the Data Driven option of a Numeric Source block requires the following input data:

Data Name: The location of the SAS data set or JMP table that contains the data to be used to specify a continuous empirical distribution.
X : Name of the column in the data set that corresponds to the set of $\text{[math]}$ ordered values $\text{[math]}$ .
C : Name of the column in the data set that corresponds to the cumulative probability values $\text{[math]}$ so that $\text{[math]}$ for $\text{[math]}$ ; $\text{[math]}$ for $\text{[math]}$ ; and $\text{[math]}$ .

The probability density function is defined as

$\text{[math]}$

If $\text{[math]}$ , then the result is a mixed continuous-discrete distribution that returns $\text{[math]}$ with probability $\text{[math]}$ and with probability $\text{[math]}$ a continuous random variate on $\text{[math]}$ using linear interpolation. If a true continuous distribution on $\text{[math]}$ is desired, then specify $\text{[math]}$ .