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- ## Copyright (C) 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: discrete_inv (X, V, P)
- ##
- ## For each component of X, compute the quantile (the inverse of the
- ## CDF) at X of the univariate distribution which assumes the values in
- ## V with probabilities P.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Quantile function of a discrete distribution
-
- function inv = discrete_inv (X, V, P)
-
- if (nargin != 3)
- usage ("discrete_inv (X, V, P)");
- endif
-
- [r, c] = size (X);
-
- if (! is_vector (V))
- error ("discrete_inv: V must be a vector");
- elseif (! is_vector (P) || (length (P) != length (V)))
- error ("discrete_inv: P must be a vector with length (V) elements");
- elseif (! (all (P >= 0) && any (P)))
- error ("discrete_inv: P must be a nonzero, nonnegative vector");
- endif
-
- n = r * c;
- X = reshape (X, 1, n);
- m = length (V);
- [V, ind] = sort (V);
- s = reshape (cumsum (P / sum (P)), m, 1);
-
- inv = NaN * ones (n, 1);
- if any (k = find (X == 0))
- inv(k) = -Inf * ones (1, length (k));
- endif
- if any (k = find (X == 1))
- inv(k) = V(m) * ones (1, length (k));
- endif
- if any (k = find ((X > 0) & (X < 1)))
- n = length (k);
- ## --FIXME--
- ## This does not work!
- inv(k) = V(sum ((ones (m, 1) * X(k)) > (s * ones (1, n))) + 1);
- endif
-
- inv = reshape (inv, r, c);
-
- endfunction
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