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20## @deftypefn {Function File} {} wblinv (@var{x}, @var{scale}, @var{shape})
21## Compute the quantile (the inverse of the CDF) at @var{x} of the
22## Weibull distribution with shape parameter @var{scale} and scale
23## parameter @var{shape}.
26## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
27## Description: Quantile function of the Weibull distribution
29function inv = wblinv (x, scale, shape)
31 if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 3)
43 if (!isscalar (shape) || !isscalar (scale))
44 [retval, x, shape, scale] = common_size (x, shape, scale);
46 error ("wblinv: x, scale and shape must be of common size or scalar");
50 inv = NaN * ones (size (x));
52 ok = ((shape > 0) & (shape < Inf) & (scale > 0) & (scale < Inf));
54 k = find ((x == 0) & ok);
59 k = find ((x > 0) & (x < 1) & ok);
61 if (isscalar (shape) && isscalar (scale))
62 inv(k) = scale * (- log (1 - x(k))) .^ (1 / shape);
64 inv(k) = scale(k) .* (- log (1 - x(k))) .^ (1 ./ shape(k));
68 k = find ((x == 1) & ok);