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NAG Toolbox: nag_quad_1d_fin_bad (d01aj)
Purpose
nag_quad_1d_fin_bad (d01aj) is a general purpose integrator which calculates an approximation to the integral of a function
over a finite interval
:
Syntax
[
result,
abserr,
w,
iw,
ifail] = d01aj(
f,
a,
b,
epsabs,
epsrel, 'lw',
lw, 'liw',
liw)
[
result,
abserr,
w,
iw,
ifail] = nag_quad_1d_fin_bad(
f,
a,
b,
epsabs,
epsrel, 'lw',
lw, 'liw',
liw)
Description
nag_quad_1d_fin_bad (d01aj) is based on the QUADPACK routine QAGS (see
Piessens et al. (1983)). It is an adaptive function, using the Gauss
-point and Kronrod
-point rules. The algorithm, described in
de Doncker (1978), incorporates a global acceptance criterion (as defined by
Malcolm and Simpson (1976)) together with the
-algorithm (see
Wynn (1956)) to perform extrapolation. The local error estimation is described in
Piessens et al. (1983).
The function is suitable as a general purpose integrator, and can be used when the integrand has singularities, especially when these are of algebraic or logarithmic type.
nag_quad_1d_fin_bad (d01aj) requires you to supply a function to evaluate the integrand at a single point.
The function
nag_quad_1d_fin_bad_vec (d01at) uses an identical algorithm but requires you to supply a function to evaluate the integrand at an array of points. Therefore
nag_quad_1d_fin_bad_vec (d01at) may be more efficient for some problem types and some machine architectures.
References
de Doncker E (1978) An adaptive extrapolation algorithm for automatic integration ACM SIGNUM Newsl. 13(2) 12–18
Malcolm M A and Simpson R B (1976) Local versus global strategies for adaptive quadrature ACM Trans. Math. Software 1 129–146
Piessens R, de Doncker–Kapenga E, Überhuber C and Kahaner D (1983) QUADPACK, A Subroutine Package for Automatic Integration Springer–Verlag
Wynn P (1956) On a device for computing the transformation Math. Tables Aids Comput. 10 91–96
Parameters
Compulsory Input Parameters
- 1:
– function handle or string containing name of m-file
-
f must return the value of the integrand
at a given point.
[result] = f(x)
Input Parameters
- 1:
– double scalar
-
The point at which the integrand must be evaluated.
Output Parameters
- 1:
– double scalar
-
The value of the integrand at
x
- 2:
– double scalar
-
, the lower limit of integration.
- 3:
– double scalar
-
, the upper limit of integration. It is not necessary that .
- 4:
– double scalar
-
The absolute accuracy required. If
epsabs is negative, the absolute value is used. See
Accuracy.
- 5:
– double scalar
-
The relative accuracy required. If
epsrel is negative, the absolute value is used. See
Accuracy.
Optional Input Parameters
- 1:
– int64int32nag_int scalar
Suggested value:
to is adequate for most problems.
Default:
The dimension of the array
w. the value of
lw (together with that of
liw) imposes a bound on the number of sub-intervals into which the interval of integration may be divided by the function. The number of sub-intervals cannot exceed
. The more difficult the integrand, the larger
lw should be.
Constraint:
.
- 2:
– int64int32nag_int scalar
Default:
The dimension of the array
iw. the number of sub-intervals into which the interval of integration may be divided cannot exceed
liw.
Constraint:
.
Output Parameters
- 1:
– double scalar
-
The approximation to the integral .
- 2:
– double scalar
-
An estimate of the modulus of the absolute error, which should be an upper bound for .
- 3:
– double array
-
Details of the computation see
Further Comments for more information.
- 4:
– int64int32nag_int array
-
contains the actual number of sub-intervals used. The rest of the array is used as workspace.
- 5:
– int64int32nag_int scalar
unless the function detects an error (see
Error Indicators and Warnings).
Error Indicators and Warnings
Note: nag_quad_1d_fin_bad (d01aj) may return useful information for one or more of the following detected errors or warnings.
Errors or warnings detected by the function:
Cases prefixed with W are classified as warnings and
do not generate an error of type NAG:error_n. See nag_issue_warnings.
- W
-
The maximum number of subdivisions allowed with the given workspace has been reached without the accuracy requirements being achieved. Look at the integrand in order to determine the integration difficulties. If the position of a local difficulty within the interval can be determined (e.g., a singularity of the integrand or its derivative, a peak, a discontinuity, etc.) you will probably gain from splitting up the interval at this point and calling the integrator on the subranges. If necessary, another integrator, which is designed for handling the type of difficulty involved, must be used. Alternatively, consider relaxing the accuracy requirements specified by
epsabs and
epsrel, or increasing the amount of workspace.
- W
-
Round-off error prevents the requested tolerance from being achieved. Consider requesting less accuracy.
- W
-
Extremely bad local integrand behaviour causes a very strong subdivision around one (or more) points of the interval. The same advice applies as in the case of .
- W
-
The requested tolerance cannot be achieved because the extrapolation does not increase the accuracy satisfactorily; the returned result is the best which can be obtained. The same advice applies as in the case of .
- W
-
The integral is probably divergent, or slowly convergent. Please note that divergence can occur with any nonzero value of
ifail.
-
-
-
An unexpected error has been triggered by this routine. Please
contact
NAG.
-
Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
-
Dynamic memory allocation failed.
Accuracy
nag_quad_1d_fin_bad (d01aj) cannot guarantee, but in practice usually achieves, the following accuracy:
where
and
epsabs and
epsrel are user-specified absolute and relative error tolerances. Moreover, it returns the quantity
abserr which, in normal circumstances, satisfies
Further Comments
The time taken by nag_quad_1d_fin_bad (d01aj) depends on the integrand and the accuracy required.
If
on exit, then you may wish to examine the contents of the
array
w,
which contains the end points of the sub-intervals used by
nag_quad_1d_fin_bad (d01aj) along with the integral contributions and error estimates over the sub-intervals.
Specifically, for
, let
denote the approximation to the value of the integral over the sub-interval
in the partition of
and
be the corresponding absolute error estimate. Then,
and
, unless
nag_quad_1d_fin_bad (d01aj) terminates while testing for divergence of the integral (see Section 3.4.3 of
Piessens et al. (1983)). In this case,
result (and
abserr) are taken to be the values returned from the extrapolation process. The value of
is returned in
, and the
values
,
,
and
are stored consecutively in the
array
w,
that is:
- ,
- ,
- and
- .
Example
Open in the MATLAB editor:
d01aj_example
function d01aj_example
fprintf('d01aj example results\n\n');
f = @(x) x*sin(30*x)/sqrt(1-x^2/(4*pi^2));
a = 0;
b = 2*pi;
epsabs = 0;
epsrel = 0.0001;
[result, abserr, w, iw, ifail] = d01aj(f, a, b, epsabs, epsrel);
fprintf('Result = %13.4f, Standard error = %10.2e\n', result, abserr);
d01aj example results
Result = -2.5433, Standard error = 1.28e-05
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