// Copyright Paul A. Bristow 2006. // Copyright John Maddock 2006. // Use, modification and distribution are subject to the // Boost Software License, Version 1.0. // (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt // or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) // test_students_t.cpp // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%27s_t_distribution // http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda3664.htm // Basic sanity test for Student's t probability (quantile) (0. < p < 1). // and Student's t probability Quantile (0. < p < 1). #define BOOST_MATH_THROW_ON_DOMAIN_ERROR #define BOOST_MATH_THROW_ON_OVERFLOW_ERROR #ifdef _MSC_VER # pragma warning(disable: 4127) // conditional expression is constant. # pragma warning(disable: 4100) // unreferenced formal parameter. # pragma warning(disable: 4512) // assignment operator could not be generated. # pragma warning(disable: 4510) // default constructor could not be generated. # pragma warning(disable: 4610) // can never be instantiated - user defined constructor required. //# pragma warning(disable: 4535) // calling _set_se_translator() requires /EHa (in Boost.test) // Enable C++ Exceptions Yes With SEH Exceptions (/EHa) prevents warning 4535. #endif #include // Boost.Test #include #include using boost::math::students_t_distribution; #include // for real_concept #include // for real_concept #include using std::cout; using std::endl; using std::setprecision; #include using std::numeric_limits; template RealType naive_pdf(RealType v, RealType t) { // Calculate the pdf of the students t in a deliberately // naive way, using equation (5) from // http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Studentst-Distribution.html // This is equivalent to, but a different method // to the one in the actual implementation, so can be used as // a very basic sanity check. However some published values // would be nice.... using namespace std; // for ADL using boost::math::beta; //return pow(v / (v + t*t), (1+v) / 2) / (sqrt(v) * beta(v/2, RealType(0.5f))); RealType result = boost::math::tgamma_ratio((v+1)/2, v/2); result /= sqrt(v * boost::math::constants::pi()); result /= pow(1 + t*t/v, (v+1)/2); return result; } template void test_spots(RealType T) { // Basic sanity checks RealType tolerance = static_cast(std::pow(10., -(6-2))); // 1e-6 (as %) // Some tests only pass at 1e-5 because probability value is less accurate, // a digit in 6th decimal place, although calculated using // a t-distribution generator (claimed 6 decimal digits) at // http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/VassarStats.html // http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/tsamp.html // df = 5, +/-t = 2.0, 1-tailed = 0.050970, 2-tailed = 0.101939 cout << "Tolerance for type " << typeid(T).name() << " is " << tolerance << " %" << endl; // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%27s_t_distribution#Table_of_selected_values // Using tabulated value of t = 3.182 for 0.975, 3 df, one-sided. // http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~shaww/web_page/papers/Tdistribution06.pdf refers to: // A lookup table of quantiles of the RealType distribution // for 1 to 25 in steps of 0.1 is provided in CSV form at: // www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~shaww/web_page/papers/Tsupp/tquantiles.csv // gives accurate t of -3.1824463052837 and 3 degrees of freedom. // Values below are from this source, saved as tquantiles.xls. // DF are across the columns, probabilities down the rows // and the t- values (quantiles) are shown. // These values are probably accurate to nearly 64-bit double // (perhaps 14 decimal digits). RealType big = std::numeric_limits::has_infinity ? std::numeric_limits::infinity() : boost::math::tools::max_value(); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::cdf( students_t_distribution(2), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(-6.96455673428326)), // t static_cast(0.01), // probability. tolerance); // % BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::cdf( students_t_distribution(5), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(-3.36492999890721)), // t static_cast(0.01), // probability. tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::cdf( students_t_distribution(1), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(-31830.988607907)), // t static_cast(0.00001), // probability. tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::cdf( students_t_distribution(25.), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(-5.2410429995425)), // t static_cast(0.00001), // probability. tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::cdf( students_t_distribution(1), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(-63661.97723)), // t static_cast(0.000005), // probability. tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::cdf( students_t_distribution(5.), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(-17.89686614)), // t static_cast(0.000005), // probability. tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::cdf( students_t_distribution(25.), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(-5.510848412)), // t static_cast(0.000005), // probability. tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::cdf( students_t_distribution(10.), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(-1.812461123)), // t static_cast(0.05), // probability. tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::cdf( students_t_distribution(10), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(1.812461123)), // t static_cast(0.95), // probability. tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::cdf( complement( students_t_distribution(10), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(1.812461123))), // t static_cast(0.05), // probability. tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::cdf( students_t_distribution(10), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(9.751995491)), // t static_cast(0.999999), // probability. tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::cdf( students_t_distribution(10.), // degrees_of_freedom - for ALL degrees_of_freedom! static_cast(0.)), // t static_cast(0.5), // probability. tolerance); // Student's t Inverse function tests. // Special cases BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(boost::math::quantile( students_t_distribution(1.), // degrees_of_freedom (ignored). static_cast(0)), // probability == half - special case. -big); // t == -infinity. BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(boost::math::quantile( students_t_distribution(1.), // degrees_of_freedom (ignored). static_cast(1)), // probability == half - special case. +big); // t == +infinity. BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(boost::math::quantile( students_t_distribution(1.), // degrees_of_freedom (ignored). static_cast(0.5)), // probability == half - special case. static_cast(0)); // t == zero. BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(boost::math::quantile( complement( students_t_distribution(1.), // degrees_of_freedom (ignored). static_cast(0.5))), // probability == half - special case. static_cast(0)); // t == zero. BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE(boost::math::quantile( students_t_distribution(1.), // degrees_of_freedom (ignored). static_cast(0.5)), // probability == half - special case. static_cast(0), // t == zero. tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( // Tests of p middling. ::boost::math::cdf( students_t_distribution(5.), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(-0.559429644)), // t static_cast(0.3), // probability. tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::quantile( students_t_distribution(5.), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(0.3)), // probability. static_cast(-0.559429644), // t tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::quantile( complement( students_t_distribution(5.), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(0.7))), // probability. static_cast(-0.559429644), // t tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( // Tests of p high. ::boost::math::cdf( students_t_distribution(5.), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(1.475884049)), // t static_cast(0.9), // probability. tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::quantile( students_t_distribution(5.), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(0.9)), // probability. static_cast(1.475884049), // t tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( // Tests of p low. ::boost::math::cdf( students_t_distribution(5.), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(-1.475884049)), // t static_cast(0.1), // probability. tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::quantile( students_t_distribution(5.), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(0.1)), // probability. static_cast(-1.475884049), // t tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::cdf( students_t_distribution(2.), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(-6.96455673428326)), // t static_cast(0.01), // probability. tolerance); BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( ::boost::math::quantile( students_t_distribution(2.), // degrees_of_freedom static_cast(0.01)), // probability. static_cast(-6.96455673428326), // t tolerance); // Student's t pdf tests. // for PDF checks, use 100 eps tolerance expressed as a percent: tolerance = boost::math::tools::epsilon() * 10000; for(unsigned i = 1; i < 20; i += 3) { for(RealType r = -10; r < 10; r += 0.125) { //std::cout << "df=" << i << " t=" << r << std::endl; BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( boost::math::pdf( students_t_distribution(static_cast(i)), r), naive_pdf(static_cast(i), r), tolerance); } } RealType tol2 = boost::math::tools::epsilon() * 5; students_t_distribution dist(8); RealType x = static_cast(0.125); using namespace std; // ADL of std names. // mean: BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( mean(dist) , static_cast(0), tol2); // variance: BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( variance(dist) , static_cast(8.0L / 6.0L), tol2); // std deviation: BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( standard_deviation(dist) , static_cast(sqrt(8.0L / 6.0L)), tol2); // hazard: BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( hazard(dist, x) , pdf(dist, x) / cdf(complement(dist, x)), tol2); // cumulative hazard: BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE( chf(dist, x) , -log(cdf(complement(dist, x))), tol2); // coefficient_of_variation: BOOST_CHECK_THROW( coefficient_of_variation(dist), std::overflow_error); // Parameter estimation. These results are close to but // not identical to those reported on the NIST website at // http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/prc/section2/prc222.htm // the NIST results appear to be calculated using a normal // approximation, which slightly under-estimates the degrees of // freedom required, particularly when the result is small. // BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL( ceil(students_t_distribution::estimate_degrees_of_freedom( static_cast(0.5), static_cast(0.005), static_cast(0.01), static_cast(1.0))), 99); BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL( ceil(students_t_distribution::estimate_degrees_of_freedom( static_cast(1.5), static_cast(0.005), static_cast(0.01), static_cast(1.0))), 14); BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL( ceil(students_t_distribution::estimate_degrees_of_freedom( static_cast(0.5), static_cast(0.025), static_cast(0.01), static_cast(1.0))), 76); BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL( ceil(students_t_distribution::estimate_degrees_of_freedom( static_cast(1.5), static_cast(0.025), static_cast(0.01), static_cast(1.0))), 11); BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL( ceil(students_t_distribution::estimate_degrees_of_freedom( static_cast(0.5), static_cast(0.05), static_cast(0.01), static_cast(1.0))), 65); BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL( ceil(students_t_distribution::estimate_degrees_of_freedom( static_cast(1.5), static_cast(0.05), static_cast(0.01), static_cast(1.0))), 9); } // template void test_spots(RealType) int test_main(int, char* []) { // Basic sanity-check spot values. // (Parameter value, arbitrarily zero, only communicates the floating point type). test_spots(0.0F); // Test float. OK at decdigits = 0 tolerance = 0.0001 % test_spots(0.0); // Test double. OK at decdigits 7, tolerance = 1e07 % #ifndef BOOST_MATH_NO_LONG_DOUBLE_MATH_FUNCTIONS test_spots(0.0L); // Test long double. #if !BOOST_WORKAROUND(__BORLANDC__, BOOST_TESTED_AT(0x582)) test_spots(boost::math::concepts::real_concept(0.)); // Test real concept. #endif #else std::cout << "The long double tests have been disabled on this platform " "either because the long double overloads of the usual math functions are " "not available at all, or because they are too inaccurate for these tests " "to pass." << std::cout; #endif return 0; } // int test_main(int, char* []) /* ------ Rebuild All started: Project: test_students_t, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Deleting intermediate and output files for project 'test_students_t', configuration 'Debug|Win32' Compiling... test_students_t.cpp Linking... Autorun "i:\boost-06-05-03-1300\libs\math\test\Math_test\debug\test_students_t.exe" Running 1 test case... 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