/* randist/tdist.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
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 */

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

/* The t-distribution has the form

   p(x) dx = (Gamma((nu + 1)/2)/(sqrt(pi nu) Gamma(nu/2))
   * (1 + (x^2)/nu)^-((nu + 1)/2) dx

   The method used here is the one described in Knuth */

double
gsl_ran_tdist (const gsl_rng * r, const double nu)
{
  if (nu <= 2)
    {
      double Y1 = gsl_ran_ugaussian (r);
      double Y2 = gsl_ran_chisq (r, nu);

      double t = Y1 / sqrt (Y2 / nu);

      return t;
    }
  else
    {
      double Y1, Y2, Z, t;
      do
        {
          Y1 = gsl_ran_ugaussian (r);
          Y2 = gsl_ran_exponential (r, 1 / (nu/2 - 1));

          Z = Y1 * Y1 / (nu - 2);
        }
      while (1 - Z < 0 || exp (-Y2 - Z) > (1 - Z));

      /* Note that there is a typo in Knuth's formula, the line below
         is taken from the original paper of Marsaglia, Mathematics of
         Computation, 34 (1980), p 234-256 */

      t = Y1 / sqrt ((1 - 2 / nu) * (1 - Z));
      return t;
    }
}

double
gsl_ran_tdist_pdf (const double x, const double nu)
{
  double p;

  double lg1 = gsl_sf_lngamma (nu / 2);
  double lg2 = gsl_sf_lngamma ((nu + 1) / 2);

  p = ((exp (lg2 - lg1) / sqrt (M_PI * nu)) 
       * pow ((1 + x * x / nu), -(nu + 1) / 2));
  return p;
}


