function pdf = gampdf (x, a, b) % GAMPDF PDF of the Gamma distribution % PDF = gampdf(X, A, B) computes, for each element of X, the % probability distribution (PDF) at X of the Gamma distribution % with parameters A and B (i.e. mean of the distribution is A*B % and variance is A*B^2). % Adapted for Matlab (R) from GNU Octave 3.0.1 % Original file: statistics/distributions/gampdf.m % Original author: TT % 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 ('gampdf: you must give three arguments'); end if (~isscalar (a) || ~isscalar(b)) [retval, x, a, b] = common_size (x, a, b); if (retval > 0) error ('gampdf: x, a and b must be of common size or scalars'); end end sz = size(x); pdf = zeros (sz); k = find (~(a > 0) | ~(b > 0) | isnan (x)); if (any (k)) pdf (k) = NaN; end k = find ((x > 0) & (a > 0) & (a <= 1) & (b > 0)); if (any (k)) if (isscalar(a) && isscalar(b)) pdf(k) = (x(k) .^ (a - 1)) ... .* exp(- x(k) ./ b) ./ gamma (a) ./ (b .^ a); else pdf(k) = (x(k) .^ (a(k) - 1)) ... .* exp(- x(k) ./ b(k)) ./ gamma (a(k)) ./ (b(k) .^ a(k)); end end k = find ((x > 0) & (a > 1) & (b > 0)); if (any (k)) if (isscalar(a) && isscalar(b)) pdf(k) = exp (- a .* log (b) + (a-1) .* log (x(k)) ... - x(k) ./ b - gammaln (a)); else pdf(k) = exp (- a(k) .* log (b(k)) + (a(k)-1) .* log (x(k)) ... - x(k) ./ b(k) - gammaln (a(k))); end end end