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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_pdf (x, n)
- ##
- ## For each element of x, compute the probability density function (PDF)
- ## at x of the t (Student) distribution with n degrees of freedom.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: PDF of the t distribution
-
- function pdf = t_pdf (x, n)
-
- if (nargin != 2)
- usage ("t_pdf (x, n)");
- endif
-
- [retval, x, n] = common_size (x, n);
- if (retval > 0)
- error ("t_pdf: 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);
- pdf = zeros (1, s);
-
- k = find (isnan (x) | !(n > 0) | !(n < Inf));
- if any (k)
- pdf(k) = NaN * ones (1, length (k));
- endif
-
- k = find (!isinf (x) & !isnan (x) & (n > 0) & (n < Inf));
- if any (k)
- pdf(k) = exp (- (n(k) + 1) .* log (1 + x(k) .^ 2 ./ n(k)) / 2) ...
- ./ (sqrt (n(k)) .* beta (n(k) / 2, 1 / 2));
- 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");
- pdf(k) = NaN * ones (1, length (k));
- endif
-
- pdf = reshape (pdf, r, c);
-
- endfunction
-