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- ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Kurt Hornik
- ##
- ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ## any later version.
- ##
- ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
- ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## usage: beta_inv (x, a, b)
- ##
- ## For each component of x, compute the quantile (the inverse of the
- ## CDF) at x of the Beta distribution with parameters a and b.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Quantile function of the Beta distribution
-
- function inv = beta_inv (x, a, b)
-
- if (nargin != 3)
- usage ("beta_inv (x, a, b)");
- endif
-
- [retval, x, a, b] = common_size (x, a, b);
- if (retval > 0)
- error ("beta_inv: x, a and b must be of common size or scalars");
- endif
-
- [r, c] = size (x);
- s = r * c;
- x = reshape (x, s, 1);
- a = reshape (a, s, 1);
- b = reshape (b, s, 1);
- inv = zeros (s, 1);
-
- k = find ((x < 0) | (x > 1) | !(a > 0) | !(b > 0) | isnan (x));
- if any (k)
- inv (k) = NaN * ones (length (k), 1);
- endif
-
- k = find ((x == 1) & (a > 0) & (b > 0));
- if any (k)
- inv (k) = ones (length (k), 1);
- endif
-
- k = find ((x > 0) & (x < 1) & (a > 0) & (b > 0));
- if any (k)
- a = a (k);
- b = b (k);
- x = x (k);
- y = a ./ b;
- l = find (y < eps);
- if any (l)
- y(l) = sqrt (eps) * ones (length (l), 1);
- endif
- l = find (y > 1 - eps);
- if any (l)
- y(l) = 1 - sqrt (eps) * ones (length (l), 1);
- endif
-
- y_old = y;
- for i = 1 : 100
- h = (beta_cdf (y_old, a, b) - x) ./ beta_pdf (y_old, a, b);
- y_new = y_old - h;
- ind = find (y_new <= eps);
- if (any (ind))
- y_new (ind) = y_old (ind) / 10;
- endif
- ind = find (y_new >= 1 - eps);
- if any (ind)
- y_new (ind) = 1 - (1 - y_old (ind)) / 10;
- endif
- h = y_old - y_new;
- if (max (abs (h)) < sqrt (eps))
- break;
- endif
- y_old = y_new;
- endfor
-
- inv (k) = y_new;
- endif
-
- inv = reshape (inv, r, c);
-
- endfunction
-