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- ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 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)
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- ##
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- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
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-
- ## -*- texinfo -*-
- ## @deftypefn {Mapping Function} {} erfinv (@var{z})
- ## Computes the inverse of the error function,
- ## @end deftypefn
-
- ## See also: erf, erfc
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Created: 27 September 1994
- ## Adapted-By: jwe
-
- function [y, iterations] = erfinv (x)
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("erfinv (x)");
- endif
-
- maxit = 100;
- tol = eps;
-
- iterations = 0;
-
- [m, n] = size (x);
- x = reshape (x, m * n, 1);
- y = zeros (m * n, 1);
-
- i = find ((x < -1) | (x > 1));
- if any (i)
- y(i) = NaN * ones (length (i), 1);
- endif
-
- t = find (x == -1);
- y (t) = (-Inf) * ones (size (t));
-
- t = find (x == 1);
- y (t) = Inf * ones (size (t));
-
- i = find ((x > -1) & (x < 1));
- if any (i)
- s = sqrt (pi) / 2;
- z_old = ones (length (i), 1);
- z_new = sqrt (-log (1 - abs (x(i)))) .* sign (x(i));
- while (any (abs (erf (z_old) - x(i)) > tol * abs (x(i))))
- z_old = z_new;
- z_new = z_old - (erf (z_old) - x(i)) .* exp (z_old.^2) * s;
- if (++iterations > maxit)
- warning ("erfinv: iteration limit exceeded");
- break;
- endif
- endwhile
- y(i) = z_new;
- endif
-
- y = reshape (y, m, n);
-
- endfunction
-