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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.math3.distribution;
+
+import org.apache.commons.math3.special.Gamma;
+import org.apache.commons.math3.util.FastMath;
+import org.apache.commons.math3.util.MathUtils;
+
+/**
+ * Utility class used by various distributions to accurately compute their respective probability
+ * mass functions. The implementation for this class is based on the Catherine Loader's <a
+ * target="_blank" href="http://www.herine.net/stat/software/dbinom.html">dbinom</a> routines.
+ *
+ * <p>This class is not intended to be called directly.
+ *
+ * <p>References:
+ *
+ * <ol>
+ * <li>Catherine Loader (2000). "Fast and Accurate Computation of Binomial Probabilities.". <a
+ * target="_blank" href="http://www.herine.net/stat/papers/dbinom.pdf">
+ * http://www.herine.net/stat/papers/dbinom.pdf</a>
+ * </ol>
+ *
+ * @since 2.1
+ */
+final class SaddlePointExpansion {
+
+ /** 1/2 * log(2 &#960;). */
+ private static final double HALF_LOG_2_PI = 0.5 * FastMath.log(MathUtils.TWO_PI);
+
+ /** exact Stirling expansion error for certain values. */
+ private static final double[] EXACT_STIRLING_ERRORS = {
+ 0.0, /* 0.0 */
+ 0.1534264097200273452913848, /* 0.5 */
+ 0.0810614667953272582196702, /* 1.0 */
+ 0.0548141210519176538961390, /* 1.5 */
+ 0.0413406959554092940938221, /* 2.0 */
+ 0.03316287351993628748511048, /* 2.5 */
+ 0.02767792568499833914878929, /* 3.0 */
+ 0.02374616365629749597132920, /* 3.5 */
+ 0.02079067210376509311152277, /* 4.0 */
+ 0.01848845053267318523077934, /* 4.5 */
+ 0.01664469118982119216319487, /* 5.0 */
+ 0.01513497322191737887351255, /* 5.5 */
+ 0.01387612882307074799874573, /* 6.0 */
+ 0.01281046524292022692424986, /* 6.5 */
+ 0.01189670994589177009505572, /* 7.0 */
+ 0.01110455975820691732662991, /* 7.5 */
+ 0.010411265261972096497478567, /* 8.0 */
+ 0.009799416126158803298389475, /* 8.5 */
+ 0.009255462182712732917728637, /* 9.0 */
+ 0.008768700134139385462952823, /* 9.5 */
+ 0.008330563433362871256469318, /* 10.0 */
+ 0.007934114564314020547248100, /* 10.5 */
+ 0.007573675487951840794972024, /* 11.0 */
+ 0.007244554301320383179543912, /* 11.5 */
+ 0.006942840107209529865664152, /* 12.0 */
+ 0.006665247032707682442354394, /* 12.5 */
+ 0.006408994188004207068439631, /* 13.0 */
+ 0.006171712263039457647532867, /* 13.5 */
+ 0.005951370112758847735624416, /* 14.0 */
+ 0.005746216513010115682023589, /* 14.5 */
+ 0.005554733551962801371038690 /* 15.0 */
+ };
+
+ /** Default constructor. */
+ private SaddlePointExpansion() {
+ super();
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Compute the error of Stirling's series at the given value.
+ *
+ * <p>References:
+ *
+ * <ol>
+ * <li>Eric W. Weisstein. "Stirling's Series." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. <a
+ * target="_blank" href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/StirlingsSeries.html">
+ * http://mathworld.wolfram.com/StirlingsSeries.html</a>
+ * </ol>
+ *
+ * @param z the value.
+ * @return the Striling's series error.
+ */
+ static double getStirlingError(double z) {
+ double ret;
+ if (z < 15.0) {
+ double z2 = 2.0 * z;
+ if (FastMath.floor(z2) == z2) {
+ ret = EXACT_STIRLING_ERRORS[(int) z2];
+ } else {
+ ret = Gamma.logGamma(z + 1.0) - (z + 0.5) * FastMath.log(z) + z - HALF_LOG_2_PI;
+ }
+ } else {
+ double z2 = z * z;
+ ret =
+ (0.083333333333333333333
+ - (0.00277777777777777777778
+ - (0.00079365079365079365079365
+ - (0.000595238095238095238095238
+ - 0.0008417508417508417508417508
+ / z2)
+ / z2)
+ / z2)
+ / z2)
+ / z;
+ }
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * A part of the deviance portion of the saddle point approximation.
+ *
+ * <p>References:
+ *
+ * <ol>
+ * <li>Catherine Loader (2000). "Fast and Accurate Computation of Binomial Probabilities.". <a
+ * target="_blank" href="http://www.herine.net/stat/papers/dbinom.pdf">
+ * http://www.herine.net/stat/papers/dbinom.pdf</a>
+ * </ol>
+ *
+ * @param x the x value.
+ * @param mu the average.
+ * @return a part of the deviance.
+ */
+ static double getDeviancePart(double x, double mu) {
+ double ret;
+ if (FastMath.abs(x - mu) < 0.1 * (x + mu)) {
+ double d = x - mu;
+ double v = d / (x + mu);
+ double s1 = v * d;
+ double s = Double.NaN;
+ double ej = 2.0 * x * v;
+ v *= v;
+ int j = 1;
+ while (s1 != s) {
+ s = s1;
+ ej *= v;
+ s1 = s + ej / ((j * 2) + 1);
+ ++j;
+ }
+ ret = s1;
+ } else {
+ ret = x * FastMath.log(x / mu) + mu - x;
+ }
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Compute the logarithm of the PMF for a binomial distribution using the saddle point
+ * expansion.
+ *
+ * @param x the value at which the probability is evaluated.
+ * @param n the number of trials.
+ * @param p the probability of success.
+ * @param q the probability of failure (1 - p).
+ * @return log(p(x)).
+ */
+ static double logBinomialProbability(int x, int n, double p, double q) {
+ double ret;
+ if (x == 0) {
+ if (p < 0.1) {
+ ret = -getDeviancePart(n, n * q) - n * p;
+ } else {
+ ret = n * FastMath.log(q);
+ }
+ } else if (x == n) {
+ if (q < 0.1) {
+ ret = -getDeviancePart(n, n * p) - n * q;
+ } else {
+ ret = n * FastMath.log(p);
+ }
+ } else {
+ ret =
+ getStirlingError(n)
+ - getStirlingError(x)
+ - getStirlingError(n - x)
+ - getDeviancePart(x, n * p)
+ - getDeviancePart(n - x, n * q);
+ double f = (MathUtils.TWO_PI * x * (n - x)) / n;
+ ret = -0.5 * FastMath.log(f) + ret;
+ }
+ return ret;
+ }
+}