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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: cauchy_inv (x [, lambda, sigma])
- ##
- ## For each element of x, compute the quantile (the inverse of the CDF)
- ## at x of the Cauchy distribution with location parameter lambda and
- ## scale parameter sigma. Default values are lambda = 0, sigma = 1.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Quantile function of the Cauchy distribution
-
- function inv = cauchy_inv (x, location, scale)
-
- if !(nargin == 1 || nargin == 3)
- usage ("cauchy_inv (x [, lambda, sigma])");
- endif
-
- if (nargin == 1)
- location = 0;
- scale = 1;
- endif
-
- [retval, x, location, scale] = common_size (x, location, scale);
- if (retval > 0)
- error (["cauchy_inv: ", ...
- "x, lambda and sigma must be of common size or scalar"]);
- endif
-
- [r, c] = size (x);
- s = r * c;
- x = reshape (x, 1, s);
- location = reshape (location, 1, s);
- scale = reshape (scale, 1, s);
-
- inv = NaN * ones (1, s);
-
- ok = ((location > -Inf) & (location < Inf) &
- (scale > 0) & (scale < Inf));
-
- k = find ((x == 0) & ok);
- if any (k)
- inv(k) = -Inf * ones (1, length (k));
- endif
-
- k = find ((x > 0) & (x < 1) & ok);
- if any (k)
- inv(k) = location(k) - scale(k) .* cot (pi * x(k));
- endif
-
- k = find ((x == 1) & ok);
- if any (k)
- inv(k) = Inf * ones (1, length (k));
- endif
-
- inv = reshape (inv, r, c);
-
- endfunction
-