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- ## Copyright (C) 1998 John W. Eaton
- ##
- ## This file is part of Octave.
- ##
- ## Octave 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.
- ##
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- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
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- ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
- ## Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
- ## 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## -*- texinfo -*-
- ## @deftypefn {Mapping Function} {} gammai (@var{a}, @var{x})
- ## Computes the incomplete gamma function,
- ## @iftex
- ## @tex
- ## $$
- ## \gamma (a, x) = {\displaystyle\int_0^x e^{-t} t^{a-1} dt \over \Gamma (a)}
- ## $$
- ## @end tex
- ## @end iftex
- ## @ifinfo
- ##
- ## @smallexample
- ## x
- ## 1 /
- ## gammai (a, x) = --------- | exp (-t) t^(a-1) dt
- ## gamma (a) /
- ## t=0
- ## @end smallexample
- ## @end ifinfo
- ##
- ## If @var{a} is scalar, then @code{gammai (@var{a}, @var{x})} is returned
- ## for each element of @var{x} and vice versa.
- ##
- ## If neither @var{a} nor @var{x} is scalar, the sizes of @var{a} and
- ## @var{x} must agree, and @var{gammai} is applied element-by-element.
- ## @end deftypefn
-
- ## See also: gamma, lgamma
-
- ## Author: jwe
- ## Created: 30 Jan 1998
-
- function retval = gammai (a, x)
-
- if (nargin == 2)
- retval = gammainc (x, a);
- else
- usage ("gammai (a, x)");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-