1: $x$ – double scalar: The deviate from the noncentral $χ^{2}$ -distribution with $ν$ degrees of freedom and noncentrality parameter $λ$ .

Constraint: $x \geq 0.0$ .
2: $df$ – double scalar: $ν$ , the degrees of freedom of the noncentral $χ^{2}$ -distribution.

Constraint: $df \geq 0.0$ .
3: $rlamda$ – double scalar: $λ$ , the noncentrality parameter of the noncentral $χ^{2}$ -distribution.

Constraint: $rlamda \geq 0.0$ if $df > 0.0$ or $rlamda > 0.0$ if $df = 0.0$ .

Optional Input Parameters

1: $tol$ – double scalar: Default: $0.0$
The required accuracy of the solution. If nag_stat_prob_chisq_noncentral (g01gc) is entered with tol greater than or equal to $1.0$ or less than $10 \times machine precision$ (see nag_machine_precision (x02aj)), then the value of $10 \times machine precision$ is used instead.
2: $maxit$ – int64int32nag_int scalar: Default: $100$ . See Further Comments for further discussion.
The maximum number of iterations to be performed.

Constraint: $maxit \geq 1$ .

Output Parameters

1: $result$ – double scalar: The result of the function.
2: $ifail$ – int64int32nag_int scalar: $ifail = 0$ unless the function detects an error (see Error Indicators and Warnings).

Error Indicators and Warnings

Note: nag_stat_prob_chisq_noncentral (g01gc) may return useful information for one or more of the following detected errors or warnings.

Errors or warnings detected by the function:

If on exit

ifail = 1

2

4

5

, then nag_stat_prob_chisq_noncentral (g01gc) returns

0.0

$ifail = 1$

On entry,	$df < 0.0$ ,
or	$rlamda < 0.0$ ,
or	$df = 0.0$ and $rlamda = 0.0$ ,
or	$x < 0.0$ ,
or	$maxit < 1$ .

$ifail = 2$: The initial value of the Poisson weight used in the summation (1) was too small to be calculated. The value of $P (x \leq x : ν; λ)$ is likely to be zero.

$ifail = 3$: The solution has failed to converge in maxit iterations.

$ifail = 4$: The value of a term required in (2) is too large to be evaluated accurately. The most likely cause of this error is both x and rlamda being very large.

$ifail = 5$: The calculations for the central $χ^{2}$ probability has failed to converge. This is an unlikely error exit. A larger value of tol should be used.

$ifail = - 99$: An unexpected error has been triggered by this routine. Please contact NAG.

$ifail = - 399$: Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.

$ifail = - 999$: Dynamic memory allocation failed.

Accuracy

The summations described in Description are made until an upper bound on the truncation error relative to the current summation value is less than tol.

Further Comments

The number of terms in (1) required for a given accuracy will depend on the following factors:

(i)	The rate at which the Poisson weights tend to zero. This will be slower for larger values of $λ$ .
(ii)	The rate at which the central $χ^{2}$ probabilities tend to zero. This will be slower for larger values of $ν$ and $x$ .

Example

This example reads values from various noncentral

χ^{2}

-distributions, calculates the lower tail probabilities and prints all these values until the end of data is reached.

Open in the MATLAB editor: g01gc_example

function g01gc_example


fprintf('g01gc example results\n\n');

x      = [  8.26   6.2   55.76];
df     = [ 20      7.5   45   ];
rlamda = [  3.5    2      1   ];
p      = x;

fprintf('     x       df   rlamda     p\n');
for j = 1:numel(x)
   [p(j), ifail] = g01gc( ...
			  x(j), df(j), rlamda(j));
end

fprintf('%8.3f%8.3f%8.3f%8.4f\n', [x; df; rlamda; p]);

g01gc example results

     x       df   rlamda     p
   8.260  20.000   3.500  0.0032
   6.200   7.500   2.000  0.2699
  55.760  45.000   1.000  0.8443

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