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title: 'mhn: The Modified Half-Normal Distribution'
version: 0.1.0
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.mhn
abstract: Provides density, distribution, quantile, and random generation functions
  for the Modified Half-Normal (MHN) distribution, along with moments, mode, and the
  Fox-Wright Psi function used as the normalizing constant. The MHN distribution arises
  as a conditional posterior in Bayesian MCMC and generalizes the half-normal, truncated
  normal, and square-root gamma distributions. Implements efficient sampling via the
  Sun, Kong & Pal (2023) <https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2021.1934700> algorithms
  and the Gao & Wang (2025) <https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2025.2524551> RTDR method.
authors:
- family-names: Momozaki
  given-names: Tomotaka
  email: momozaki.stat@gmail.com
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'mhn: The Modified Half-Normal Distribution'
  authors:
  - family-names: Momozaki
    given-names: Tomotaka
    email: momozaki.stat@gmail.com
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 0.1.0
  url: https://github.com/t-momozaki/mhn
repository: https://t-momozaki.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/t-momozaki/mhn
commit: 56a950316a82b10a37283230470c19599e8593d6
url: https://t-momozaki.github.io/mhn/
date-released: '2026-05-18'
contact:
- family-names: Momozaki
  given-names: Tomotaka
  email: momozaki.stat@gmail.com
references:
- type: article
  title: 'The Modified-Half-Normal distribution: Properties and an efficient sampling
    scheme'
  authors:
  - family-names: Sun
    given-names: Jingchao
  - family-names: Kong
    given-names: Maiying
  - family-names: Pal
    given-names: Subhadip
  journal: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods
  year: '2023'
  volume: '52'
  issue: '5'
  doi: 10.1080/03610926.2021.1934700
  start: '1507'
  end: '1536'
- type: article
  title: Generating modified-half-normal random variates by a relaxed transformed
    density rejection method
  authors:
  - family-names: Gao
    given-names: Fang
  - family-names: Wang
    given-names: Hong-Bin
  journal: Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
  year: '2025'
  doi: 10.1080/03610918.2025.2524551