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ipoisson.m Poisson distribution — individual terms. As in the case of the binomial distribution, we have an m-function for the individualterms and one for the cumulative case. The m-functions ipoisson and cpoisson use a computational strategy similar to that used for the binomial case. Not only does this workfor large μ , but the precision is at least as good as that for the binomial m-functions. Experience indicates that the m-functions are good for μ 700 . They breaks down at about 710, largely because of limitations of the MATLAB exponentialfunction. For individual terms, function y = ipoisson(mu,k) calculates the probabilities for m u a positive integer, k a row or column vector of nonnegative integers. The output is a row vector of the corresponding Poisson probabilities.

function y = ipoisson(mu,k) % IPOISSON y = ipoisson(mu,k) Individual Poisson probabilities% Version of 10/15/93 % mu = mean value% k may be a row or column vector of integer values % y = P(X = k) (a row vector of probabilities)K = max(k); p = exp(-mu)*cumprod([1 mu*ones(1,K)]./[1 1:K]);y = p(k+1);
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cpoisson.m Poisson distribution—cumulative terms. function y = cpoisson(mu,k) , calculates P ( X k ) , where k may be a row or a column vector of nonnegative integers. The output is a row vector of the corresponding probabilities.

function y = cpoisson(mu,k) % CPOISSON y = cpoisson(mu,k) Cumulative Poisson probabilities% Version of 10/15/93 % mu = mean value mu% k may be a row or column vector of integer values % y = P(X>= k) (a row vector of probabilities) K = max(k);p = exp(-mu)*cumprod([1 mu*ones(1,K)]./[1 1:K]); pc = [1 1 - cumsum(p)]; y = pc(k+1);
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nbinom.m Negative binomial — function y = nbinom(m, p, k) calculates the probability that the m th success in a Bernoulli sequence occurs on the k th trial.

function y = nbinom(m, p, k) % NBINOM y = nbinom(m, p, k) Negative binomial probabilities% Version of 12/10/92 % Probability the mth success occurs on the kth trial% m a positive integer; p a probability % k a matrix of integers greater than or equal to m% y = P(X=k) (a matrix of the same dimensions as k) q = 1 - p;y = ((p^m)/gamma(m)).*(q.^(k - m)).*gamma(k)./gamma(k - m + 1);
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gaussian.m function y = gaussian(m, v, t) calculates the Gaussian (Normal) distribution function for mean value m , variance v , and matrix t of values. The result y = P ( X t ) is a matrix of the same dimensions as t .

function y = gaussian(m,v,t) % GAUSSIAN y = gaussian(m,v,t) Gaussian distribution function% Version of 11/18/92 % Distribution function for X ~ N(m, v)% m = mean, v = variance % t is a matrix of evaluation points% y = P(X<=t) (a matrix of the same dimensions as t) u = (t - m)./sqrt(2*v);if u>= 0 y = 0.5*(erf(u) + 1);else y = 0.5*erfc(-u);end
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gaussdensity.m function y = gaussdensity(m,v,t) calculates the Gaussian density function f X ( t ) for mean value m , variance t , and matrix t of values.

function y = gaussdensity(m,v,t) % GAUSSDENSITY y = gaussdensity(m,v,t) Gaussian density% Version of 2/8/96 % m = mean, v = variance% t is a matrix of evaluation points y = exp(-((t-m).^2)/(2*v))/sqrt(v*2*pi);
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