/* randist/multinomial.c * * Copyright (C) 2002 Gavin E. Crooks * * 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 /* The multinomial distribution has the form N! n_1 n_2 n_K prob(n_1, n_2, ... n_K) = -------------------- p_1 p_2 ... p_K (n_1! n_2! ... n_K!) where n_1, n_2, ... n_K are nonnegative integers, sum_{k=1,K} n_k = N, and p = (p_1, p_2, ..., p_K) is a probability distribution. Random variates are generated using the conditional binomial method. This scales well with N and does not require a setup step. Ref: C.S. David, The computer generation of multinomial random variates, Comp. Stat. Data Anal. 16 (1993) 205-217 */ void gsl_ran_multinomial (const gsl_rng * r, const size_t K, const unsigned int N, const double p[], unsigned int n[]) { size_t k; double norm = 0.0; double sum_p = 0.0; unsigned int sum_n = 0; /* p[k] may contain non-negative weights that do not sum to 1.0. * Even a probability distribution will not exactly sum to 1.0 * due to rounding errors. */ for (k = 0; k < K; k++) { norm += p[k]; } for (k = 0; k < K; k++) { if (p[k] > 0.0) { n[k] = gsl_ran_binomial (r, p[k] / (norm - sum_p), N - sum_n); } else { n[k] = 0; } sum_p += p[k]; sum_n += n[k]; } } double gsl_ran_multinomial_pdf (const size_t K, const double p[], const unsigned int n[]) { return exp (gsl_ran_multinomial_lnpdf (K, p, n)); } double gsl_ran_multinomial_lnpdf (const size_t K, const double p[], const unsigned int n[]) { size_t k; unsigned int N = 0; double log_pdf = 0.0; double norm = 0.0; for (k = 0; k < K; k++) { N += n[k]; } for (k = 0; k < K; k++) { norm += p[k]; } log_pdf = gsl_sf_lnfact (N); for (k = 0; k < K; k++) { /* Handle case where n[k]==0 and p[k]==0 */ if (n[k] > 0) { log_pdf += log (p[k] / norm) * n[k] - gsl_sf_lnfact (n[k]); } } return log_pdf; }