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[project @ 2000-01-19 06:58:51 by jwe]
author jwe
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
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##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} chisquare_pdf (@var{x}, @var{n})
## For each element of @var{x}, compute the probability density function
## (PDF) at @var{x} of the chisquare distribution with @var{k} degrees
## of freedom.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: TT <Teresa.Twaroch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Description: PDF of the chi-sqaure distribution

function pdf = chisquare_pdf (x, n)

  if (nargin != 2)
    usage ("chisquare_pdf (x, n)");
  endif

  [retval, x, n] = common_size (x, n);
  if (retval > 0)
    error ("chisquare_pdf: x and n must be of common size or scalar");
  endif

  pdf = gamma_pdf (x, n / 2, 1 / 2);

  ## should we really only allow for positive integer n?
  k = find (n != round (n));
  if (any (k))
    warning ("chisquare_pdf: n should be positive integer");
    [r, c] = size (x);
    pdf = reshape (pdf, 1, r * c);
    pdf(k) = NaN * ones (1, length (k));
    pdf = reshape (pdf, r, c);
  endif

endfunction