Calculate Negative loglikelihood of custom probability distribution

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Hello,
I have a 1D vector, whose data are chi distributed. The Matlab built-in function negloglik expects a probability distribution object pd, which for standard distributions can be created by fitdist. Unfortunately, my chi distribution is no standard distribution and is thus not supported by fitdist.
How can I calculated the Negative loglikelihood in my special case?

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Torsten
Torsten 2022-8-20
编辑:Torsten 2022-8-20
% Generate random numbers from chi distribution with k = 6
k = 6;
y = rand(150,1);
x = gammaincinv(y,k/2);
x = sqrt(2*x);
% Recover k by maximum likelihood estimate
syms k
f = prod(x.^(k-1).*exp(-x.^2/2)/(2^(k/2-1)*gamma(k/2)));
logf = log(f)
logf = 
dlogfdk = simplify(diff(logf,k))
dlogfdk = 
knum = vpasolve(dlogfdk==0,k,[0 10])
knum = 
6.2804404606724144851804043896857
negative_log_likelihood = subs(-logf,k,knum)
negative_log_likelihood = 
148.38329537359329151154663411951
k = 0:0.1:10;
Logf = matlabFunction(logf);
plot(k,-Logf(k))
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dj1du
dj1du 2022-8-20
One concluding question: Beside the negative loglikelihood, is it possible to calculate the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) and the Akaike information criterion (AIC) in a similar manner? These two latter criteria are said to provide a better determination of the 'best' fitting distribution.

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Torsten
Torsten 2022-8-20
编辑:Torsten 2022-8-20
Why don't you deduce the equation you have to solve for k by hand ?
The paragraph
Continuous distribution, continuous parameter space
under
explains in detail what to do.
I get (for comparison):
sum_{i=1}^{i=n} log(xi) - n/2*log(2) - n/2*digamma(k/2) = 0
where xi (i=1,...,n) are your measurement data.
Solve for k (e.g. using fsolve) to get the maximum likelihood estimate for the parameter.

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