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update Octave Project Developers copyright for the new year In files that have the "Octave Project Developers" copyright notice, update for 2020.
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
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1 ## Copyright (C) 1994-2020 The Octave Project Developers
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2 ##
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3 ## See the file COPYRIGHT.md in the top-level directory of this distribution
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4 ## or <https://octave.org/COPYRIGHT.html/>.
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5 ##
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6 ##
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7 ## This file is part of Octave.
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8 ##
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9 ## Octave is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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10 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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11 ## the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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12 ## (at your option) any later version.
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13 ##
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14 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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15 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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16 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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17 ## GNU General Public License for more details.
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18 ##
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19 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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20 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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21 ## <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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23 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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24 ## @deftypefn {} {} beta (@var{a}, @var{b})
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25 ## Compute the Beta function for real inputs @var{a} and @var{b}.
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26 ##
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27 ## The Beta function definition is
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28 ## @tex
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29 ## $$
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30 ## B (a, b) = {\Gamma (a) \Gamma (b) \over \Gamma (a + b)}.
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31 ## $$
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32 ## @end tex
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33 ## @ifnottex
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34 ##
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35 ## @example
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36 ## beta (a, b) = gamma (a) * gamma (b) / gamma (a + b).
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37 ## @end example
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38 ##
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39 ## @end ifnottex
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40 ##
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41 ## The Beta function can grow quite large and it is often more useful to work
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42 ## with the logarithm of the output rather than the function directly.
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43 ## @xref{XREFbetaln,,betaln}, for computing the logarithm of the Beta function
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44 ## in an efficient manner.
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45 ## @seealso{betaln, betainc, betaincinv}
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46 ## @end deftypefn
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48 ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
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49 ## Created: 13 June 1993
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50 ## Adapted-By: jwe
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51
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52 function retval = beta (a, b)
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54 if (nargin != 2)
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55 print_usage ();
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56 endif
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57
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58 if (! isreal (a) || ! isreal (b))
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59 error ("beta: A and B must be real");
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60 elseif (! size_equal (a, b) && numel (a) != 1 && numel (b) != 1)
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61 error ("beta: A and B must have consistent sizes");
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62 endif
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64 retval = real (exp (gammaln (a) + gammaln (b) - gammaln (a+b)));
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66 endfunction
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69 %!test
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70 %! a = [1, 1.5, 2, 3];
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71 %! b = [4, 3, 2, 1];
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72 %! v1 = beta (a, b);
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73 %! v2 = beta (b, a);
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74 %! v3 = gamma (a).*gamma (b) ./ gamma (a+b);
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75 %! assert (v1, v2, sqrt (eps));
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76 %! assert (v2, v3, sqrt (eps));
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78 %!assert (beta (1, 1), 1)
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80 %!test
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81 %! a = 2:10;
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82 %! tol = 10 * max (a) * eps;
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83 %! assert (-a, beta (-1./a, 1), tol);
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84 %! assert (-a, beta (1, -1./a), tol);
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86 %!test
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87 %! a = 0.25 + (0:5) * 0.5;
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88 %! tol = 10 * max (a) * eps;
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89 %! assert (zeros (size (a)), beta (a, -a), tol);
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90 %! assert (zeros (size (a)), beta (-a, a), tol);
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92 %!error beta ()
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93 %!error beta (1)
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94 %!error beta (1,2,3)
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95 %!error <A and B must be real> beta (1i, 2)
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96 %!error <A and B must be real> beta (2, 1i)
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97 %!error <A and B must have consistent sizes> beta ([1 2], [1 2 3])
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98 %!error <A and B must have consistent sizes> beta ([1 2 3], [1 2])
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99 %!error <A and B must have consistent sizes> beta ([1 2 3], [1 2 3]')