## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997  Kurt Hornik
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} f_rnd (@var{m}, @var{n}, @var{r}, @var{c})
## Return an @var{r} by @var{c} matrix of random samples from the F
## distribution with @var{m} and @var{n} degrees of freedom.  Both
## @var{m} and @var{n} must be scalar or of size @var{r} by @var{c}.
##
## If @var{r} and @var{c} are omitted, the size of the result matrix is
## the common size of @var{m} and @var{n}.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Description: Random deviates from the F distribution

function rnd = f_rnd (m, n, r, c)

  if (nargin == 4)
    if (! (is_scalar (r) && (r > 0) && (r == round (r))) )
      error ("f_rnd: r must be a positive integer");
    endif
    if (! (is_scalar (c) && (c > 0) && (c == round (c))) )
      error ("f_rnd: c must be a positive integer");
    endif
    [retval, m, n] = common_size (m, n, zeros (r, c));
    if (retval > 0)
      error ("f_rnd: m and n must be scalar or of size %d by %d", r, c);
    endif
  elseif (nargin == 2)
    [retval, m, n] = common_size (m, n);
    if (retval > 0)
      error ("f_rnd: m and n must be of common size or scalar");
    endif
  else
    usage ("f_rnd (m, n, r, c)");
  endif

  [r, c] = size (m);
  s = r * c;
  m = reshape (m, 1, s);
  n = reshape (n, 1, s);
  rnd = zeros (1, s);

  k = find (!(m > 0) | !(m < Inf) | !(m == round (m)) |
            !(n > 0) | !(n < Inf) | !(n == round (n)));
  if (any (k))
    rnd(k) = NaN * ones (1, length (k));
  endif

  k = find ((m > 0) & (m < Inf) & (m == round (m)) &
            (n > 0) & (n < Inf) & (n == round (n)));
  if (any (k))
    rnd(k) = f_inv (rand (1, length (k)), m(k), n(k));
  endif

  rnd = reshape (rnd, r, c);

endfunction