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author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:25:41 -0500
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## Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Kurt Hornik
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} logit (@var{p})
## For each component of @var{p}, return the logit of @var{p} defined as
## @tex
## $$
## {\rm logit}(p) = \log\Big({p \over 1-p}\Big)
## $$
## @end tex
## @ifnottex
##
## @example
## logit(@var{p}) = log (@var{p} / (1-@var{p}))
## @end example
##
## @end ifnottex
## @seealso{logistic_cdf}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
## Description: Logit transformation

function y = logit (p)

  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  y = logistic_inv (p);

endfunction


%!test
%! p = [0.01:0.01:0.99];
%! assert(logit (p), log (p ./ (1-p)), 25*eps)

%!assert(logit ([-1, 0, 0.5, 1, 2]), [NaN, -Inf, 0, +Inf, NaN])

%% Test input validation
%!error logit ()
%!error logit (1, 2)