/* randist/beta.c * * Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007 James Theiler, Brian Gough * * 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. */ #include #include #include #include #include #include /* 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; } }