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/*
* Java Information Dynamics Toolkit (JIDT)
* Copyright (C) 2012, Joseph T. Lizier
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package infodynamics.utils;
import infodynamics.utils.commonsmath3.distribution.ChiSquaredDistribution;
/**
* Class to represent analytic distributions of info theoretic measurements under
* some null hypothesis of a relationship between the variables, where the
* distribution of <b>a function of</b> those information-theoretic measurements
* is a Chi Square distribution.
*
* @author Joseph Lizier (<a href="joseph.lizier at gmail.com">email</a>,
* <a href="http://lizier.me/joseph/">www</a>)
*/
public class ChiSquareMeasurementDistribution extends
AnalyticMeasurementDistribution {
/**
* Number of degrees of freedom for the distribution
*/
protected int degreesOfFreedom;
/**
* The number of observations that the information theoretic estimate
* is computed from
*/
protected int numObservations;
/**
* An object of the chi2dist class from commons.math3,
* which we'll use to access the distribution values
*/
protected ChiSquaredDistribution chi2dist;
/**
* Construct the distribution.
* Note: the Chi squared distribution is technically
* of 2*numObservations*(the info theoretic estimate), not
* of the info theoretic measurement itself.
*
* @param actualValue actual observed information-theoretic value
* @param numObservations the number of observations that the information theoretic estimate
* is computed from
* @param degreesOfFreedom degrees of freedom for the distribution
*/
public ChiSquareMeasurementDistribution(double actualValue,
int numObservations, int degreesOfFreedom) {
super(actualValue, 1 - MathsUtils.chiSquareCdf(2.0*((double)numObservations)*actualValue, degreesOfFreedom));
this.numObservations = numObservations;
this.degreesOfFreedom = degreesOfFreedom;
chi2dist = new ChiSquaredDistribution(degreesOfFreedom);
}
public double computePValueForGivenEstimate(double estimate) {
return 1 - MathsUtils.chiSquareCdf(2.0*((double)numObservations)*estimate, degreesOfFreedom);
}
public double computeEstimateForGivenPValue(double pValue) {
return chi2dist.inverseCumulativeProbability(1 - pValue) / (2.0*((double)numObservations));
// Could also call the following, but this doesn't re-use our objects:
// return MathsUtils.chiSquareInv(1 - pValue, degreesOfFreedom);
}
}