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Using findroot and NIntegrate with a double integral

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  • Subject: [mg97770] Using findroot and NIntegrate with a double integral
  • From: Mac <mwjdavidson at googlemail.com>
  • Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:16:55 -0500 (EST)

Hello,

I'm working on a typical compound distribution in radar scattering
theory which involves the lognormal and gamma distribution. What I
would like to do is calculate the uncertainty bounds (quantiles) for
the compound distribution which can only be solved numerically. I'm
hitting a problem with the combination of NIntegrate[] and FindRoot[]
which requires the integration over two variables (s which needs to be
integrated out) and (x the quantile). I get a lot of error messages
complaining about undefined limits of integration.

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(1) Error Messages

In[81]:= lognormpdf
gammapdf

Out[81]= (0.346517 E^(-0.377223 Log[s]^2))/s

Out[82]= (316.228 E^(-((316.228 x)/s)))/s

In[83]:= FindRoot[
 NIntegrate[lognormpdf gammapdf, {s, 0, Infinity}, {x, 0, lowlim}] ==
  0.159, {lowlim, 0.001}]

During evaluation of In[83]:= NIntegrate::nlim: x = lowlim is not a
valid limit of integration. >>

During evaluation of In[83]:= NIntegrate::inumr: The integrand
(109.578 E^(-((316.228 <<6>>)/s)-0.377223 <<1>>))/s^2 has evaluated to
non-numerical values for all sampling points in the region with
boundaries {{\[Infinity],0.}}. >>

During evaluation of In[83]:= NIntegrate::inumr: The integrand
(109.578 E^(-((316.228 <<6>>)/s)-0.377223 <<1>>))/s^2 has evaluated to
non-numerical values for all sampling points in the region with
boundaries {{\[Infinity],0.}}. >>

Out[83]= {lowlim -> 0.000339794}

Many thanks for any help.

Malcolm


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