InverseFunction of a CDF
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- Subject: [mg102767] InverseFunction of a CDF
- From: "Christian Winzer" <cw420 at cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:55:06 -0400 (EDT)
Hello,
I am calculating the cumulated density function of a variable x based on the
variables m and z using the following code:
(* Distribution of the stochastic variable m*)
M = NormalDistribution[0, 1];
mPDF = PDF[M];
mCDF = CDF[M];
(* Weight of m in x*)
w = 0.5;
(* Distribution of the stochastic variable z*)
Z = NormalDistribution[0, 1];
zPDF = PDF[Z];
zCDF = CDF[Z];
(*This section calculates the distribution of x = w * m + z *)
(*Conditional cumulated density xCDFm[x,m] of the stochastic variable x
conditional on m *)
xCDFm = Evaluate[zCDF[(#1 - w * #2)/(Sqrt[1 - w^2])]] &;
(*Unconditional cumulated density xCDF[x] of the stochastic variable x *)
xCDF = NIntegrate[xCDFm[#1, m]* mPDF[m], {m, -\[Infinity], \[Infinity]}] &;
The calculation seems to work, because I can plot xCDF correctly.
But for some reason, I can not get the inverse function. I have tried 3
different ways:
In[78]:=
x = InverseFunction[xCDF][#1] &;
Evaluate[x[0.5]]
Out[79]=
InverseFunction[NIntegrate[xCDFm[#1, m] mPDF[m], {m, -\[Infinity],
\[Infinity]}] &][0.5]
In[80]:=
Evaluate[Quantile[xCDF, 0.5]]
Out[81]=
Quantile[NIntegrate[xCDFm[#1, m] mPDF[m], {m, -\[Infinity], \[Infinity]}] &,
0.5]
In[82]:=
Solve[xCDF[x] == 0.5, x]
During evaluation of In[73]:= NIntegrate::inumr: The integrand (E^(-(m^2/2))
(1+Erf[0.816497 (-0.5 m+((xCDF^(-1))[Slot[<<1>>]]&))]))/(2 Sqrt[2 \[Pi]])
has evaluated to non-numerical values for all sampling points in the region
with boundaries {{-\[Infinity],0.}}. >>
During evaluation of In[73]:= NIntegrate::inumr: The integrand (E^(-(m^2/2))
(1+Erf[0.816497 (-0.5 m+((xCDF^(-1))[Slot[<<1>>]]&))]))/(2 Sqrt[2 \[Pi]])
has evaluated to non-numerical values for all sampling points in the region
with boundaries {{-\[Infinity],0.}}. >>
During evaluation of In[73]:= NIntegrate::inumr: The integrand (E^(-(m^2/2))
(1+Erf[0.816497 (-0.5 m+((xCDF^(-1))[Slot[<<1>>]]&))]))/(2 Sqrt[2 \[Pi]])
has evaluated to non-numerical values for all sampling points in the region
with boundaries {{-\[Infinity],0.}}. >>
During evaluation of In[73]:= General::stop: Further output of
NIntegrate::inumr will be suppressed during this calculation. >>
During evaluation of In[73]:= Solve::ifun: Inverse functions are being used
by Solve, so some solutions may not be found; use Reduce for complete
solution information. >>
Out[83]= {}
In this particular example I know without calculation, that xCDF is the
CDF[NormalDistribution[0,Sqrt[1.25]]], however I want to use different
distributions for m and z in the future, and then I can't always tell the
distribution of x, so I will need to calculate it. Any ideas how I could do
that?
Thank you very much in advance and best wishes,
Christian
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