weibull.c

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/* randist/weibull.c
 * 
 * Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 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 2 of the License, or (at
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 * 
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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 * General Public License for more details.
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 */

#include <config.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_rng.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_randist.h>

/* The Weibull distribution has the form,

   p(x) dx = (b/a) (x/a)^(b-1) exp(-(x/a)^b) dx

 */

double
gsl_ran_weibull (const gsl_rng * r, const double a, const double b)
{
  double x = gsl_rng_uniform_pos (r);

  double z = pow (-log (x), 1 / b);

  return a * z;
}

double
gsl_ran_weibull_pdf (const double x, const double a, const double b)
{
  if (x < 0)
    {
      return 0 ;
    }
  else if (x == 0)
    {
      if (b == 1)
        return 1/a ;
      else
        return 0 ;
    }
  else if (b == 1)
    {
      return exp(-x/a)/a ;
    }
  else
    {
      double p = (b/a) * exp (-pow (x/a, b) + (b - 1) * log (x/a));
      return p;
    }
}