function inv = betainv (x, a, b) % BETAINV Quantile function of the Beta distribution % INV = betainv(X, A, B) computes, for each element of X, the % quantile (the inverse of the CDF) at X of the Beta distribution % with parameters A and B (i.e. mean of the distribution is % A/(A+B) and variance is A*B/(A+B)^2/(A+B+1) ). % Adapted for Matlab (R) from GNU Octave 3.0.1 % Original file: statistics/distributions/betainv.m % Original author: KH % Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2006, 2007 Kurt Hornik % Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Dynare Team % % This file is part of Dynare. % % Dynare 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. % % Dynare 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 Dynare. If not, see . if (nargin ~= 3) error ('betainv: you must give three arguments'); end if (~isscalar (a) || ~isscalar(b)) [retval, x, a, b] = common_size (x, a, b); if (retval > 0) error ('betainv: x, a and b must be of common size or scalars'); end end sz = size (x); inv = zeros (sz); k = find ((x < 0) | (x > 1) | ~(a > 0) | ~(b > 0) | isnan (x)); if (any (k)) inv (k) = NaN; end k = find ((x == 1) & (a > 0) & (b > 0)); if (any (k)) inv (k) = 1; end k = find ((x > 0) & (x < 1) & (a > 0) & (b > 0)); if (any (k)) if (~isscalar(a) || ~isscalar(b)) a = a (k); b = b (k); y = a ./ (a + b); else y = a / (a + b) * ones (size (k)); end x = x (k); l = find (y < eps); if (any (l)) y(l) = sqrt (eps) * ones (length (l), 1); end l = find (y > 1 - eps); if (any (l)) y(l) = 1 - sqrt (eps) * ones (length (l), 1); end y_old = y; for i = 1 : 10000 h = (betacdf (y_old, a, b) - x) ./ betapdf (y_old, a, b); y_new = y_old - h; ind = find (y_new <= eps); if (any (ind)) y_new (ind) = y_old (ind) / 10; end ind = find (y_new >= 1 - eps); if (any (ind)) y_new (ind) = 1 - (1 - y_old (ind)) / 10; end h = y_old - y_new; if (max (abs (h)) < sqrt (eps)) break end y_old = y_new; end inv (k) = y_new; end end