Inf and NaN problem

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Hajar
Hajar 2015-1-14
评论： Star Strider 2015-1-14
I have to do some computations with very big numbers values, so my matlab code returns "Inf" and "NaN.. I want to know if there is a way to avoid this problem? here is the part of my code that returns Inf and NaN
UtiliteProba(b,l)=exp((UtiliteB(b,l)+UtiliteC(b,l))/T);
proba(b,l)=UtiliteProba(b,l)/constante(1,b);
Actually the "UtiliteProba"= Inf and "proba"=NaN , the "constante" is equal to Inf too..
thank you so much for your help

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Iain
Iain 2015-1-14
Logarithms are your friends. Here's what I mean maths:
log(UtiliteProba) = (UtiliteB(b,l)+UtiliteC(b,l))/T (values in the range of a few hundred correspond to the maximum values matlab can handle with doubles)
proba = e^(log(UtiliteProba) - log(constante(1,b))
log(proba) = (log(UtiliteProba) - log(constante(1,b))
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Hajar
Hajar 2015-1-14
I forgot to mention that
constante(1,b)=sum(UtiliteProba(b,:))
then
log(proba)=log(utiliteProba)-log(constante)
=log(utiliteProba)-log(sum(utiliteProba))
for log(utiliteProba) it's okay since I can calculate it by using (UtiliteB(b,l)+UtiliteC(b,l))/T , but log(constante) would be log(inf) :s :s

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Star Strider
Star Strider 2015-1-14
The only way I can imagine to avoid the Inf and NaN values (assuming none of the arguments ‘UtiliteB’ and ‘UtiliteC’ are either Inf or NaN) is to not take the exponential and keep them as logarithms until you need to actually evaluate them as exponentials:
UtiliteProba(b,l) = ((UtiliteB(b,l)+UtiliteC(b,l))/T);
proba(b,l) = UtiliteProba(b,l) - log(constante(1,b));
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Hajar
Hajar 2015-1-14
actually constante(1,b)=sum(UtiliteProba(b,l)) :s
Star Strider
Star Strider 2015-1-14
‘log(constante) would be log(inf)’
If ‘constante = Inf’, then none of your calculations using it will produce any useful results.
You need to review your calculation of ‘constante’ and see what the problem is with it.

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