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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: chisquare_inv (x, n)
- ##
- ## For each element of x, compute the quantile (the inverse of the CDF)
- ## at x of the chisquare distribution with n degrees of freedom.
-
- ## Author: TT <Teresa.Twaroch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Quantile function of the chi-square distribution
-
- function inv = chisquare_inv (x, n)
-
- if (nargin != 2)
- usage ("chisquare_inv (x, n)");
- endif
-
- [retval, x, n] = common_size (x, n);
- if (retval > 0)
- error ("chisquare_inv: x and n must be of common size or scalar");
- endif
-
- inv = gamma_inv (x, n / 2, 1 / 2);
-
- ## Allow only for (positive) integer n.
- k = find (n != round (n));
- if any (k)
- fprintf (stderr, ...
- "WARNING: n should be positive integer\n");
- [r, c] = size (x);
- inv = reshape (inv, 1, r * c);
- inv(k) = NaN * ones (1, length (k));
- inv = reshape (inv, r, c);
- endif
-
- endfunction
-