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date | Wed, 19 Jan 2000 06:59:23 +0000 |
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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. ## -*- texinfo -*- ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} lognormal_pdf (@var{x}, @var{a}, @var{v}) ## For each element of @var{x}, compute the probability density function ## (PDF) at @var{x} of the lognormal distribution with parameters ## @var{a} and @var{v}. If a random variable follows this distribution, ## its logarithm is normally distributed with mean @code{log (@var{a})} ## and variance @var{v}. ## ## Default values are @var{a} = 1, @var{v} = 1. ## @end deftypefn ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> ## Description: PDF of the log normal distribution function pdf = lognormal_pdf (x, a, v) if (! ((nargin == 1) || (nargin == 3))) usage ("lognormal_pdf (x, a, v)"); endif if (nargin == 1) a = 1; v = 1; endif ## The following "straightforward" implementation unfortunately does ## not work for the special cases (Inf, ...) ## pdf = (x > 0) ./ x .* normal_pdf (log (x), log (a), v); ## Hence ... [retval, x, a, v] = common_size (x, a, v); if (retval > 0) error ("lognormal_pdf: x, a and v must be of common size or scalars"); endif [r, c] = size (x); s = r * c; x = reshape (x, 1, s); a = reshape (a, 1, s); v = reshape (v, 1, s); pdf = zeros (1, s); k = find (isnan (x) | !(a > 0) | !(a < Inf) | !(v > 0) | !(v < Inf)); if (any (k)) pdf(k) = NaN * ones (1, length (k)); endif k = find ((x > 0) & (x < Inf) & (a > 0) & (a < Inf) & (v > 0) & (v < Inf)); if (any (k)) pdf(k) = normal_pdf (log (x(k)), log (a(k)), v(k)) ./ x(k); endif pdf = reshape (pdf, r, c); endfunction