Difference between revisions of "Documentation/How Tos/Calc: BETADIST function"
OOoWikiBot (talk | contribs) m (Bot: Adding Category: Documentation) |
|||
Line 104: | Line 104: | ||
* [[Documentation/How_Tos/Calc: Functions listed by category|Functions listed by category]] | * [[Documentation/How_Tos/Calc: Functions listed by category|Functions listed by category]] | ||
}} | }} | ||
+ | [[Category: Documentation]] |
Revision as of 13:08, 20 November 2009
BETADIST
Calculates the cumulative distribution function or the probability density function of a beta distribution.
Syntax
BETADIST(x; α; β; a; b; cumulative)
The beta distribution is a family of continuous probability distributions, where α and β are parameters controlling the shape of the distribution.
x is the number, at which you will evaluate the Beta distribution.
The parameters a and b are lower and upper bounds of the distribution. You can interpret the value a as location and the value b−a as scale.
a and b are optional parameters which default (if omitted) to 0 and 1.
cumulative is an optional, logical parameter which defaults to TRUE() if omitted.
Before OOo version 3.1 the parameter cumulative doesn't exist and only the cumulative probability function is calculated.
Constraints:
- α > 0 , β > 0 , a < b
- If α < 1, than the density function has a pole at x = a.
- If β < 1, than the density function has a pole at x = b.
Semantic
For cumulative = FALSE() the function BETADIST calculates the probability density function (besides the constraints given above):
For cumulative = TRUE() the function BETADIST calculates the cumulative distribution function:
Notice, that
where
and is the regularized incomplete Beta function.
Example
BETADIST(1;5;3;-2;4;FALSE())
|
BETADIST(0.2;0.7;4;0;1;FALSE())
|
BETADIST(1;1;0.5;0;1;FALSE())
BETADIST(1.1;1;0.5;0;1;FALSE())
|
BETADIST(1;5;3;-2;4;TRUE())
call before version 3.1: BETADIST(1;5;3;-2;4) |
BETADIST(0.2;0.7;4;0;1;TRUE())
call before version 3.1: BETADIST(0.2;0.7:4;0;1) other valid call: BETADIST(0.2;0.7;4) |
BETADIST(1.1;1;0.5;0;1;TRUE())
before version 3.1: BETADIST(1.1;1;0.5;0;1)
|