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1 ## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton |
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2 ## |
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3 ## This file is part of Octave. |
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4 ## |
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at |
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8 ## your option) any later version. |
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9 ## |
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
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13 ## General Public License for more details. |
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14 ## |
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see |
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17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
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20 ## @deftypefn {Mapping Function} {} beta (@var{a}, @var{b}) |
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21 ## Return the Beta function, |
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22 ## @iftex |
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23 ## @tex |
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24 ## $$ |
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25 ## B (a, b) = {\Gamma (a) \Gamma (b) \over \Gamma (a + b)}. |
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26 ## $$ |
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27 ## @end tex |
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28 ## @end iftex |
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29 ## @ifinfo |
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30 ## |
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31 ## @example |
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32 ## beta (a, b) = gamma (a) * gamma (b) / gamma (a + b). |
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33 ## @end example |
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34 ## @end ifinfo |
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35 ## @end deftypefn |
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36 |
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37 ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at> |
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38 ## Created: 13 June 1993 |
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39 ## Adapted-By: jwe |
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40 |
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41 function retval = beta (a, b) |
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42 |
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43 if (nargin != 2) |
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44 print_usage (); |
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45 endif |
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46 |
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47 retval = exp (gammaln (a) + gammaln (b) - gammaln (a+b)); |
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48 |
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49 endfunction |