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nctpdf

Noncentral t probability density function

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Syntax

Y = nctpdf(X,V,DELTA)

Description

Y = nctpdf(X,V,DELTA) computes the noncentral t pdf at each of the values in X using the corresponding degrees of freedom in V and noncentrality parameters in DELTA. Vector or matrix inputs for X, V, and DELTA must have the same size, which is also the size of Y. A scalar input for X, V, or DELTA is expanded to a constant matrix with the same dimensions as the other inputs.

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Compute the pdf of a noncentral t distribution with degrees of freedom V = 10 and noncentrality parameter DELTA = 1. For comparison, also compute the pdf of a t distribution with the same degrees of freedom.

x = (-5:0.1:5)';
nct = nctpdf(x,10,1);
t = tpdf(x,10);

Plot the pdf of the noncentral t distribution and the pdf of the t distribution on the same figure.

plot(x,nct,'b-','LineWidth',2)
hold on
plot(x,t,'g--','LineWidth',2)
legend('nct','t')

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object contains 2 objects of type line. These objects represent nct, t.

References

[1] Evans, M., N. Hastings, and B. Peacock. Statistical Distributions. 2nd ed., Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993, pp. 147–148.

[2] Johnson, N., and S. Kotz. Distributions in Statistics: Continuous Univariate Distributions-2. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1970, pp. 201–219.

Extended Capabilities

C/C++ Code Generation
Generate C and C++ code using MATLAB® Coder™.

Version History

Introduced before R2006a

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