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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)
- ## 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: betai (a, b, x)
- ##
- ## Returns the incomplete beta function
- ##
- ## betai (a, b, x) = BETA(a,b)^(-1) INT_0^x t^(a-1) (1-t)^(b-1) dt.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Created: 2 August 1994
- ## Adapted-By: jwe
-
- ## Computation is based on the series expansion
- ## betai(a, b, x)
- ## = \frac{x^a}{B(a, b)}
- ## \sum_{l=0}^\infty \frac{(1-b)\cdots(l-b)}{a+l} \frac{x^l}{l!}
- ## for x <= 1/2. For x > 1/2, betai(a, b, x) = 1 - betai(b, a, 1-x).
-
- function y = betai (a, b, x)
-
- if (nargin != 3)
- usage ("betai (a, b, x)");
- endif
-
- [retval, x, a, b] = common_size (x, a, b);
- if (retval > 0)
- error ("betai: a, b and x must be of common size or scalar");
- endif
-
- [r, c] = size (x);
- s = r * c;
- x = reshape (x, 1, s);
- a = reshape (a, 1, s);
- b = reshape (b, 1, s);
- y = zeros (1, s);
-
- k = find ((x < 0) | (x > 1) | !(a > 0) | !(b > 0) | isnan (x));
- if any (k)
- y(k) = NaN * ones (1, length (k));
- endif
-
- k = find ((x == 1) & (a > 0) & (b > 0));
- if any (k)
- y(k) = ones (1, length (k));
- endif
-
- ## Now do the series computations.
- ## The error when truncating at term L is always less than 2^(-L),
- ## hence the following choice of L.
-
- L = ceil (-log (eps) / log (2));
- h = ones (L, 1);
-
- k = find ((x >= 0) & (x <= 1/2) & (a > 0) & (b > 0));
- if any (k)
- l = (1 : L)' * ones (1, length (k));
- tmp = cumprod ((1 - (h * b(k)) ./ l) .* (h * x(k))) ...
- ./ ((h * a(k)) + l);
- y(k) = exp (a(k) .* log (x(k))) .* (1 ./ a(k) + sum (tmp)) ...
- ./ beta (a(k), b(k));
- endif
-
- k = find ((x > 1/2) & (x < 1) & (a > 0) & (b > 0));
- if any (k)
- l = (1 : L)' * ones (1, length (k));
- tmp = cumprod ((1 - (h * a(k)) ./ l) .* (h * (1 - x(k)))) ...
- ./ (h * b(k) + l);
- y(k) = 1 - exp (b(k) .* log (1 - x(k))) ...
- .* (1 ./ b(k) + sum (tmp)) ./ beta (a(k), b(k));
- endif
-
- y = reshape (y, r, c);
-
- endfunction
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