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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: t_inv (x, n)
- ##
- ## For each component of x, compute the quantile (the inverse of the
- ## CDF) at x of the t (Student) distribution with parameter n.
-
- ## For very large n, the "correct" formula does not really work well,
- ## and the quantiles of the standard normal distribution are used
- ## directly.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Quantile function of the t distribution
-
- function inv = t_inv (x, n)
-
- if (nargin != 2)
- usage ("t_inv (x, n)");
- endif
-
- [retval, x, n] = common_size (x, n);
- if (retval > 0)
- error ("t_inv: x and n must be of common size or scalar");
- endif
-
- [r, c] = size (x);
- s = r * c;
- x = reshape (x, 1, s);
- n = reshape (n, 1, s);
- inv = zeros (1, s);
-
- k = find ((x < 0) | (x > 1) | isnan (x) | !(n > 0));
- if any (k)
- inv(k) = NaN * ones (1, length (k));
- endif
-
- k = find ((x == 0) & (n > 0));
- if any (k)
- inv(k) = (-Inf) * ones (1, length (k));
- endif
-
- k = find ((x == 1) & (n > 0));
- if any (k)
- inv(k) = Inf * ones (1, length (k));
- endif
-
- k = find ((x > 0) & (x < 1) & (n > 0) & (n < 10000));
- if any (k)
- inv(k) = sign (x(k) - 1/2) .* sqrt (n(k) .* (1 ...
- ./ beta_inv (2 * min (x(k), 1 - x(k)), n(k) / 2, 1 / 2) - 1));
- endif
-
- ## For large n, use the quantiles of the standard normal
- k = find ((x > 0) & (x < 1) & (n >= 10000));
- if any (k)
- inv(k) = stdnormal_inv (x(k));
- endif
-
- ## should we really only allow for positive integer n?
- k = find (n != round (n));
- if any (k)
- fprintf (stderr, ...
- "WARNING: n should be positive integer\n");
- inv(k) = NaN * ones (1, length (k));
- endif
-
- inv = reshape (inv, r, c);
-
- endfunction