/* randist/beta.c
*
* Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007 James Theiler, Brian Gough
*
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*/
#include <config.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_math.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_rng.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_randist.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_sf_gamma.h>
/* The beta distribution has the form
p(x) dx = (Gamma(a + b)/(Gamma(a) Gamma(b))) x^(a-1) (1-x)^(b-1) dx
The method used here is the one described in Knuth */
double
gsl_ran_beta (const gsl_rng * r, const double a, const double b)
{
if ( (a <= 1.0) && (b <= 1.0) )
{
double U, V, X, Y;
while (1)
{
U = gsl_rng_uniform_pos(r);
V = gsl_rng_uniform_pos(r);
X = pow(U, 1.0/a);
Y = pow(V, 1.0/b);
if ((X + Y ) <= 1.0)
{
if (X + Y > 0)
{
return X/ (X + Y);
}
else
{
double logX = log(U)/a;
double logY = log(V)/b;
double logM = logX > logY ? logX: logY;
logX -= logM;
logY -= logM;
return exp(logX - log(exp(logX) + exp(logY)));
}
}
}
}
else
{
double x1 = gsl_ran_gamma (r, a, 1.0);
double x2 = gsl_ran_gamma (r, b, 1.0);
return x1 / (x1 + x2);
}
}
double
gsl_ran_beta_pdf (const double x, const double a, const double b)
{
if (x < 0 || x > 1)
{
return 0 ;
}
else
{
double p;
double gab = gsl_sf_lngamma (a + b);
double ga = gsl_sf_lngamma (a);
double gb = gsl_sf_lngamma (b);
if (x == 0.0 || x == 1.0)
{
if (a > 1.0 && b > 1.0)
{
p = 0.0;
}
else
{
p = exp (gab - ga - gb) * pow (x, a - 1) * pow (1 - x, b - 1);
}
}
else
{
p = exp (gab - ga - gb + log(x) * (a - 1) + log1p(-x) * (b - 1));
}
return p;
}
}