/* * AUTHOR * Claus Ekstrøm, ekstrom@dina.kvl.dk * July 15, 2003. * * Merge in to R: * Copyright (C) 2003-2015 The R Foundation * * 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 2 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, a copy is available at * https://www.R-project.org/Licenses/ * * * NOTE * * Requires the following auxiliary routines: * * lgammafn(x) - log gamma function * pnt(x, df, ncp) - the distribution function for * the non-central t distribution * * * DESCRIPTION * * From Johnson, Kotz and Balakrishnan (1995) [2nd ed.; formula (31.15), p.516], * the non-central t density is * * f(x, df, ncp) = * * exp(-.5*ncp^2) * gamma((df+1)/2) / (sqrt(pi*df)* gamma(df/2)) * (df/(df+x^2))^((df+1)/2) * * sum_{j=0}^Inf gamma((df+j+1)/2)/(factorial(j)* gamma((df+1)/2)) * (x*ncp*sqrt(2)/sqrt(df+x^2))^ j * * * The functional relationship * * f(x, df, ncp) = df/x * * (F(sqrt((df+2)/df)*x, df+2, ncp) - F(x, df, ncp)) * * is used to evaluate the density at x != 0 and * * f(0, df, ncp) = exp(-.5*ncp^2) / * (sqrt(pi)*sqrt(df)*gamma(df/2))*gamma((df+1)/2) * * is used for x=0. * * All calculations are done on log-scale to increase stability. * * FIXME: pnt() is known to be inaccurate in the (very) left tail and for ncp > 38 * ==> use a direct log-space summation formula in that case */ #include "nmath.h" #include "dpq.h" double dnt(double x, double df, double ncp, int give_log) { double u; #ifdef IEEE_754 if (ISNAN(x) || ISNAN(df)) return x + df; #endif /* If non-positive df then error */ if (df <= 0.0) ML_WARN_return_NAN; if(ncp == 0.0) return dt(x, df, give_log); /* If x is infinite then return 0 */ if(!R_FINITE(x)) return R_D__0; /* If infinite df then the density is identical to a normal distribution with mean = ncp. However, the formula loses a lot of accuracy around df=1e9 */ if(!R_FINITE(df) || df > 1e8) return dnorm(x, ncp, 1., give_log); /* Do calculations on log scale to stabilize */ /* Consider two cases: x ~= 0 or not */ if (fabs(x) > sqrt(df * DBL_EPSILON)) { u = log(df) - log(fabs(x)) + log(fabs(pnt(x*sqrt((df+2)/df), df+2, ncp, 1, 0) - pnt(x, df, ncp, 1, 0))); /* FIXME: the above still suffers from cancellation (but not horribly) */ } else { /* x ~= 0 : -> same value as for x = 0 */ u = lgammafn((df+1)/2) - lgammafn(df/2) - (M_LN_SQRT_PI + .5*(log(df) + ncp*ncp)); } return (give_log ? u : exp(u)); }