/* cdf/gauss.c * * Copyright (C) 2002, 2004 Jason H. Stover. * * 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 3 of the License, 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 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, * Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ /* * Computes the cumulative distribution function for the Gaussian * distribution using a rational function approximation. The * computation is for the standard Normal distribution, i.e., mean 0 * and standard deviation 1. If you want to compute Pr(X < t) for a * Gaussian random variable X with non-zero mean m and standard * deviation sd not equal to 1, find gsl_cdf_ugaussian ((t-m)/sd). * This approximation is accurate to at least double precision. The * accuracy was verified with a pari-gp script. The largest error * found was about 1.4E-20. The coefficients were derived by Cody. * * References: * * W.J. Cody. "Rational Chebyshev Approximations for the Error * Function," Mathematics of Computation, v23 n107 1969, 631-637. * * W. Fraser, J.F Hart. "On the Computation of Rational Approximations * to Continuous Functions," Communications of the ACM, v5 1962. * * W.J. Kennedy Jr., J.E. Gentle. "Statistical Computing." Marcel Dekker. 1980. * * */ #include #include #include #include #ifndef M_1_SQRT2PI #define M_1_SQRT2PI (M_2_SQRTPI * M_SQRT1_2 / 2.0) #endif #define SQRT32 (4.0 * M_SQRT2) /* * IEEE double precision dependent constants. * * GAUSS_EPSILON: Smallest positive value such that * gsl_cdf_gaussian(x) > 0.5. * GAUSS_XUPPER: Largest value x such that gsl_cdf_gaussian(x) < 1.0. * GAUSS_XLOWER: Smallest value x such that gsl_cdf_gaussian(x) > 0.0. */ #define GAUSS_EPSILON (GSL_DBL_EPSILON / 2) #define GAUSS_XUPPER (8.572) #define GAUSS_XLOWER (-37.519) #define GAUSS_SCALE (16.0) static double get_del (double x, double rational) { double xsq = 0.0; double del = 0.0; double result = 0.0; xsq = floor (x * GAUSS_SCALE) / GAUSS_SCALE; del = (x - xsq) * (x + xsq); del *= 0.5; result = exp (-0.5 * xsq * xsq) * exp (-1.0 * del) * rational; return result; } /* * Normal cdf for fabs(x) < 0.66291 */ static double gauss_small (const double x) { unsigned int i; double result = 0.0; double xsq; double xnum; double xden; const double a[5] = { 2.2352520354606839287, 161.02823106855587881, 1067.6894854603709582, 18154.981253343561249, 0.065682337918207449113 }; const double b[4] = { 47.20258190468824187, 976.09855173777669322, 10260.932208618978205, 45507.789335026729956 }; xsq = x * x; xnum = a[4] * xsq; xden = xsq; for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) { xnum = (xnum + a[i]) * xsq; xden = (xden + b[i]) * xsq; } result = x * (xnum + a[3]) / (xden + b[3]); return result; } /* * Normal cdf for 0.66291 < fabs(x) < sqrt(32). */ static double gauss_medium (const double x) { unsigned int i; double temp = 0.0; double result = 0.0; double xnum; double xden; double absx; const double c[9] = { 0.39894151208813466764, 8.8831497943883759412, 93.506656132177855979, 597.27027639480026226, 2494.5375852903726711, 6848.1904505362823326, 11602.651437647350124, 9842.7148383839780218, 1.0765576773720192317e-8 }; const double d[8] = { 22.266688044328115691, 235.38790178262499861, 1519.377599407554805, 6485.558298266760755, 18615.571640885098091, 34900.952721145977266, 38912.003286093271411, 19685.429676859990727 }; absx = fabs (x); xnum = c[8] * absx; xden = absx; for (i = 0; i < 7; i++) { xnum = (xnum + c[i]) * absx; xden = (xden + d[i]) * absx; } temp = (xnum + c[7]) / (xden + d[7]); result = get_del (x, temp); return result; } /* * Normal cdf for * {sqrt(32) < x < GAUSS_XUPPER} union { GAUSS_XLOWER < x < -sqrt(32) }. */ static double gauss_large (const double x) { int i; double result; double xsq; double temp; double xnum; double xden; double absx; const double p[6] = { 0.21589853405795699, 0.1274011611602473639, 0.022235277870649807, 0.001421619193227893466, 2.9112874951168792e-5, 0.02307344176494017303 }; const double q[5] = { 1.28426009614491121, 0.468238212480865118, 0.0659881378689285515, 0.00378239633202758244, 7.29751555083966205e-5 }; absx = fabs (x); xsq = 1.0 / (x * x); xnum = p[5] * xsq; xden = xsq; for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) { xnum = (xnum + p[i]) * xsq; xden = (xden + q[i]) * xsq; } temp = xsq * (xnum + p[4]) / (xden + q[4]); temp = (M_1_SQRT2PI - temp) / absx; result = get_del (x, temp); return result; } double gsl_cdf_ugaussian_P (const double x) { double result; double absx = fabs (x); if (absx < GAUSS_EPSILON) { result = 0.5; return result; } else if (absx < 0.66291) { result = 0.5 + gauss_small (x); return result; } else if (absx < SQRT32) { result = gauss_medium (x); if (x > 0.0) { result = 1.0 - result; } return result; } else if (x > GAUSS_XUPPER) { result = 1.0; return result; } else if (x < GAUSS_XLOWER) { result = 0.0; return result; } else { result = gauss_large (x); if (x > 0.0) { result = 1.0 - result; } } return result; } double gsl_cdf_ugaussian_Q (const double x) { double result; double absx = fabs (x); if (absx < GAUSS_EPSILON) { result = 0.5; return result; } else if (absx < 0.66291) { result = gauss_small (x); if (x < 0.0) { result = fabs (result) + 0.5; } else { result = 0.5 - result; } return result; } else if (absx < SQRT32) { result = gauss_medium (x); if (x < 0.0) { result = 1.0 - result; } return result; } else if (x > -(GAUSS_XLOWER)) { result = 0.0; return result; } else if (x < -(GAUSS_XUPPER)) { result = 1.0; return result; } else { result = gauss_large (x); if (x < 0.0) { result = 1.0 - result; } } return result; } double gsl_cdf_gaussian_P (const double x, const double sigma) { return gsl_cdf_ugaussian_P (x / sigma); } double gsl_cdf_gaussian_Q (const double x, const double sigma) { return gsl_cdf_ugaussian_Q (x / sigma); }