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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) 2012 Rik Wehbring
## Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Kurt Hornik
## Copyright (C) 2010 Christos Dimitrakakis
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} betapdf (@var{x}, @var{a}, @var{b})
## For each element of @var{x}, compute the probability density function (PDF)
## at @var{x} of the Beta distribution with parameters @var{a} and @var{b}.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>, CD <christos.dimitrakakis@gmail.com>
## Description: PDF of the Beta distribution

function pdf = betapdf (x, a, b)

  if (nargin != 3)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (!isscalar (a) || !isscalar (b))
    [retval, x, a, b] = common_size (x, a, b);
    if (retval > 0)
      error ("betapdf: X, A, and B must be of common size or scalars");
    endif
  endif

  if (iscomplex (x) || iscomplex (a) || iscomplex (b))
    error ("betapdf: X, A, and B must not be complex");
  endif

  if (isa (x, "single") || isa (a, "single") || isa (b, "single"));
    pdf = zeros (size (x), "single");
  else
    pdf = zeros (size (x));
  endif

  k = !(a > 0) | !(b > 0) | isnan (x);
  pdf(k) = NaN;

  k = (x > 0) & (x < 1) & (a > 0) & (b > 0) & ((a != 1) | (b != 1));
  if (isscalar (a) && isscalar (b))
    pdf(k) = exp ((a - 1) * log (x(k))
                  + (b - 1) * log (1 - x(k))
                  + lgamma (a + b) - lgamma (a) - lgamma (b));
  else
    pdf(k) = exp ((a(k) - 1) .* log (x(k))
                  + (b(k) - 1) .* log (1 - x(k))
                  + lgamma (a(k) + b(k)) - lgamma (a(k)) - lgamma (b(k)));
  endif

  ## Most important special cases when the density is finite.
  k = (x == 0) & (a == 1) & (b > 0) & (b != 1);
  if (isscalar (a) && isscalar (b))
    pdf(k) = exp (lgamma (a + b) - lgamma (a) - lgamma (b));
  else
    pdf(k) = exp (lgamma (a(k) + b(k)) - lgamma (a(k)) - lgamma (b(k)));
  endif

  k = (x == 1) & (b == 1) & (a > 0) & (a != 1);
  if (isscalar (a) && isscalar (b))
    pdf(k) = exp (lgamma (a + b) - lgamma (a) - lgamma (b));
  else
    pdf(k) = exp (lgamma (a(k) + b(k)) - lgamma (a(k)) - lgamma (b(k)));
  endif

  k = (x >= 0) & (x <= 1) & (a == 1) & (b == 1);
  pdf(k) = 1;

  ## Other special case when the density at the boundary is infinite.
  k = (x == 0) & (a < 1);
  pdf(k) = Inf;

  k = (x == 1) & (b < 1);
  pdf(k) = Inf;

endfunction


%!shared x,y
%! x = [-1 0 0.5 1 2];
%! y = [0 2 1 0 0];
%!assert(betapdf (x, ones(1,5), 2*ones(1,5)), y);
%!assert(betapdf (x, 1, 2*ones(1,5)), y);
%!assert(betapdf (x, ones(1,5), 2), y);
%!assert(betapdf (x, [0 NaN 1 1 1], 2), [NaN NaN y(3:5)]);
%!assert(betapdf (x, 1, 2*[0 NaN 1 1 1]), [NaN NaN y(3:5)]);
%!assert(betapdf ([x, NaN], 1, 2), [y, NaN]);

%% Test class of input preserved
%!assert(betapdf (single([x, NaN]), 1, 2), single([y, NaN]));
%!assert(betapdf ([x, NaN], single(1), 2), single([y, NaN]));
%!assert(betapdf ([x, NaN], 1, single(2)), single([y, NaN]));

%% Beta (1/2,1/2) == arcsine distribution
%!test
%! x = rand (10,1);
%! y = 1./(pi * sqrt (x.*(1-x)));
%! assert(betapdf (x, 1/2, 1/2), y, 50*eps);

%% Test large input values to betapdf
%!assert (betapdf(0.5, 1000, 1000), 35.678, 1e-3)

%% Test input validation
%!error betapdf ()
%!error betapdf (1)
%!error betapdf (1,2)
%!error betapdf (1,2,3,4)
%!error betapdf (ones(3),ones(2),ones(2))
%!error betapdf (ones(2),ones(3),ones(2))
%!error betapdf (ones(2),ones(2),ones(3))
%!error betapdf (i, 2, 2)
%!error betapdf (2, i, 2)
%!error betapdf (2, 2, i)