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+## Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Arno Onken <asnelt@asnelt.org>
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+## the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+## Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+## version.
+##
+## This program 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 General Public License for more
+## details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
+## this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{y} =} raylpdf (@var{x}, @var{sigma})
+## Compute the probability density function of the Rayleigh distribution.
+##
+## @subheading Arguments
+##
+## @itemize @bullet
+## @item
+## @var{x} is the support. The elements of @var{x} must be non-negative.
+##
+## @item
+## @var{sigma} is the parameter of the Rayleigh distribution. The elements
+## of @var{sigma} must be positive.
+## @end itemize
+## @var{x} and @var{sigma} must be of common size or one of them must be
+## scalar.
+##
+## @subheading Return values
+##
+## @itemize @bullet
+## @item
+## @var{y} is the probability density of the Rayleigh distribution at each
+## element of @var{x} and corresponding parameter @var{sigma}.
+## @end itemize
+##
+## @subheading Examples
+##
+## @example
+## @group
+## x = 0:0.5:2.5;
+## sigma = 1:6;
+## y = raylpdf (x, sigma)
+## @end group
+##
+## @group
+## y = raylpdf (x, 0.5)
+## @end group
+## @end example
+##
+## @subheading References
+##
+## @enumerate
+## @item
+## Wendy L. Martinez and Angel R. Martinez. @cite{Computational Statistics
+## Handbook with MATLAB}. Appendix E, pages 547-557, Chapman & Hall/CRC,
+## 2001.
+##
+## @item
+## Athanasios Papoulis. @cite{Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic
+## Processes}. pages 104 and 148, McGraw-Hill, New York, second edition,
+## 1984.
+## @end enumerate
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Arno Onken <asnelt@asnelt.org>
+## Description: PDF of the Rayleigh distribution
+
+function y = raylpdf (x, sigma)
+
+ # Check arguments
+ if (nargin != 2)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (! isempty (x) && ! ismatrix (x))
+ error ("raylpdf: x must be a numeric matrix");
+ endif
+ if (! isempty (sigma) && ! ismatrix (sigma))
+ error ("raylpdf: sigma must be a numeric matrix");
+ endif
+
+ if (! isscalar (x) || ! isscalar (sigma))
+ [retval, x, sigma] = common_size (x, sigma);
+ if (retval > 0)
+ error ("raylpdf: x and sigma must be of common size or scalar");
+ endif
+ endif
+
+ # Calculate pdf
+ y = x .* exp ((-x .^ 2) ./ (2 .* sigma .^ 2)) ./ (sigma .^ 2);
+
+ # Continue argument check
+ k = find (! (x >= 0) | ! (x < Inf) | ! (sigma > 0));
+ if (any (k))
+ y(k) = NaN;
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+%!test
+%! x = 0:0.5:2.5;
+%! sigma = 1:6;
+%! y = raylpdf (x, sigma);
+%! expected_y = [0.0000, 0.1212, 0.1051, 0.0874, 0.0738, 0.0637];
+%! assert (y, expected_y, 0.001);
+
+%!test
+%! x = 0:0.5:2.5;
+%! y = raylpdf (x, 0.5);
+%! expected_y = [0.0000, 1.2131, 0.5413, 0.0667, 0.0027, 0.0000];
+%! assert (y, expected_y, 0.001);