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/* randist/fdist.c
 * 
 * Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2010 James Theiler, Brian Gough
 * 
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
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 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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 */

#include <config.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_sf_gamma.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_rng.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_randist.h>

/* The F distribution has the form

   p(x) dx = (nu1^(nu1/2) nu2^(nu2/2) Gamma((nu1 + nu2)/2) /
   Gamma(nu1/2) Gamma(nu2/2)) *
   x^(nu1/2 - 1) (nu2 + nu1 * x)^(-nu1/2 -nu2/2) dx

   The method used here is the one described in Knuth */

double
gsl_ran_fdist (const gsl_rng * r, const double nu1, const double nu2)
{

  double Y1 =  gsl_ran_gamma (r, nu1 / 2, 2.0);
  double Y2 =  gsl_ran_gamma (r, nu2 / 2, 2.0);

  double f = (Y1 * nu2) / (Y2 * nu1);

  return f;
}

double
gsl_ran_fdist_pdf (const double x, const double nu1, const double nu2)
{
  if (x < 0)
    {
      return 0 ;
    }
  else
    {
      double p;
      double lglg = (nu1 / 2) * log (nu1) + (nu2 / 2) * log (nu2) ;

      double lg12 = gsl_sf_lngamma ((nu1 + nu2) / 2);
      double lg1 = gsl_sf_lngamma (nu1 / 2);
      double lg2 = gsl_sf_lngamma (nu2 / 2);

      p =
	exp (lglg + lg12 - lg1 - lg2 + (nu1 / 2 - 1) * log (x) -
	     ((nu1 + nu2) / 2) * log (nu2 + nu1 * x));

      return p;
    }
}