#lang scheme/base ;;; PLT Scheme Science Collection ;;; random-distributions/pareto.ss ;;; Copyright (c) 2004-2008 M. Douglas Williams ;;; ;;; This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ;;; modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public ;;; License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either ;;; version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ;;; ;;; This library 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 ;;; Lesser General Public License for more details. ;;; ;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public ;;; License along with this library; if not, write to the Free ;;; Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA ;;; 02111-1307 USA. ;;; ;;; ------------------------------------------------------------------- ;;; ;;; This module implements the pareto distribution. It is based on the ;;; Random Number Distributions in the GNU Scientific Library. ;;; ;;; Version Date Description ;;; 1.0.0 09/28/04 Marked as ready for Release 1.0. Added ;;; contracts for functions. (Doug Williams) ;;; 2.0.0 11/19/07 Added unchecked versions of functions and ;;; getting ready for PLT Scheme 4.0 (Doug Williams) ;;; 3.0.0 06/09/08 Changes required for V4.0. (Doug Williams) (require (lib "contract.ss")) (provide (rename-out (random-pareto unchecked-random-pareto) (pareto-pdf unchecked-pareto-pdf) (pareto-cdf unchecked-pareto-cdf))) (provide/contract (random-pareto (case-> (-> random-source? real? real? real?) (-> real? real? real?))) (pareto-pdf (-> real? real? real? (>=/c 0.0))) (pareto-cdf (-> real? real? real? (real-in 0.0 1.0)))) (require "../random-source.ss") ;;; random-pareto: ransom-source x real x real -> real ;;; random-pareto: real x real -> real ;;; This function returns a random variate from the Pareto ;;; distribution of order a. The distribution funtion is ;;; p(x) dx = (a/b) / (x/b)^(a+1) dx (define random-pareto (case-lambda ((r a b) (let* ((x (unchecked-random-uniform r)) (z (expt x (/ -1.0 a)))) (* b z))) ((a b) (random-pareto (current-random-source) a b)))) ;;; pareto-pdf: real x real x real -> real ;;; This function computes the probability density function p(x) at x ;;; for a Pareto distribution with exponent a and scale b using the ;;; formula above. (define (pareto-pdf x a b) (if (>= x b) (/ (/ a b) (expt (/ x b) (+ a 1.0))) 0.0)) ;;; pareto-cdf: real x real x real -> real ;;; This function computes the cumulative density function D(x) for ;;; the Pareto distribution with exponent a and scale b. (define (pareto-cdf x a b) (if (< x b) 0.0 (- 1.0 (expt (/ b x) a))))