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C Library Functions  - unisf (3)

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NAME

unisf(3f) - [M_datapac:SPARSITY] compute the Uniform sparsity function

CONTENTS

Synopsis
Description
Input Arguments
Output Arguments
Examples
Author
Maintainer
License
References

SYNOPSIS

SUBROUTINE UNISF(P,Sf)

       REAL(kind=wp),intent(in)  :: P
       REAL(kind=wp),intent(out) :: Sf

DESCRIPTION

UNISF(3f) computes the sparsity function value for the uniform (rectangular) distribution on the unit interval (0,1).

This distribution has mean = 0.5 and standard deviation = sqrt(1/12) = 0.28867513.

This distribution has the probability density function f(X) = 1.

Note that the sparsity function of a distribution is the derivative of the percent point function, and also is the reciprocal of the probability density function (but in units of P rather than X).

INPUT ARGUMENTS

P	The value (between 0.0 and 1.0) at which the sparsity function is to be evaluated.

OUTPUT ARGUMENTS

SF	The sparsity function value.

EXAMPLES

Sample program:

   program demo_unisf
   use M_datapac, only : unisf, label
   implicit none
      call label(’unisf’)
   ! call unisf(x,y)
   end program demo_unisf

Results:

AUTHOR

The original DATAPAC library was written by James Filliben of the Statistical Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology.

MAINTAINER

John Urban, 2022.05.31

LICENSE

CC0-1.0

REFERENCES

o	Filliben, Simple and Robust Linear Estimation of the Location Parameter of a Symmetric Distribution (Unpublished PH.D. Dissertation, Princeton University), 1969, pages 21-44, 229-231.
o	Filliben, ’The Percent Point Function’, (Unpublished Manuscript), 1970, pages 28-31.
o	Johnson and Kotz, Continuous Univariate Distributions--2, 1970, pages 57-74.

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unisf (3)

February 23, 2025

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