\name{Chisquare} \alias{Chisquare} \alias{dchisq} \alias{pchisq} \alias{qchisq} \alias{rchisq} \title{The (non-central) Chi-Squared Distribution} \description{ Density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the chi-squared (\eqn{\chi^2}{chi^2}) distribution with \code{df} degrees of freedom and optional non-centrality parameter \code{ncp}. } \usage{ dchisq(x, df, ncp=0, log = FALSE) pchisq(q, df, ncp=0, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE) qchisq(p, df, ncp=0, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE) rchisq(n, df, ncp=0) } \arguments{ \item{x, q}{vector of quantiles.} \item{p}{vector of probabilities.} \item{n}{number of observations. If \code{length(n) > 1}, the length is taken to be the number required.} \item{df}{degrees of freedom (non-negative, but can be non-integer).} \item{ncp}{non-centrality parameter (non-negative).} \item{log, log.p}{logical; if TRUE, probabilities p are given as log(p).} \item{lower.tail}{logical; if TRUE (default), probabilities are \eqn{P[X \le x]}{P[X <= x]}, otherwise, \eqn{P[X > x]}{P[X > x]}.} } \value{ \code{dchisq} gives the density, \code{pchisq} gives the distribution function, \code{qchisq} gives the quantile function, and \code{rchisq} generates random deviates. Invalid arguments will result in return value \code{NaN}, with a warning. } \details{ The chi-squared distribution with \code{df}\eqn{= n > 0} degrees of freedom has density \deqn{f_n(x) = \frac{1}{{2}^{n/2} \Gamma (n/2)} {x}^{n/2-1} {e}^{-x/2}}{% f_n(x) = 1 / (2^(n/2) Gamma(n/2)) x^(n/2-1) e^(-x/2)} for \eqn{x > 0}. The mean and variance are \eqn{n} and \eqn{2n}. The non-central chi-squared distribution with \code{df}\eqn{= n} degrees of freedom and non-centrality parameter \code{ncp} \eqn{= \lambda} has density \deqn{ f(x) = e^{-\lambda / 2} \sum_{r=0}^\infty \frac{(\lambda/2)^r}{r!}\, f_{n + 2r}(x)}{% f(x) = exp(-lambda/2) SUM_{r=0}^infty ((lambda/2)^r / r!) dchisq(x, df + 2r) } for \eqn{x \ge 0}. For integer \eqn{n}, this is the distribution of the sum of squares of \eqn{n} normals each with variance one, \eqn{\lambda} being the sum of squares of the normal means; further, \cr \eqn{E(X) = n + \lambda}, \eqn{Var(X) = 2(n + 2*\lambda)}, and \eqn{E((X - E(X))^3) = 8(n + 3*\lambda)}. Note that the degrees of freedom \code{df}\eqn{= n}, can be non-integer, and for non-centrality \eqn{\lambda > 0}, even \eqn{n = 0}; see Johnson et al. (1995, chapter 29). Note that \code{ncp} values larger than about 1e5 may give inaccurate results with many warnings for \code{pchisq} and \code{qchisq}. } \source{ The central cases are computed via the gamma distribution. The non-central \code{dchisq} and \code{rchisq} are computed as a Poisson mixture central of chi-squares (Johnson et al, 1995, p.436). The non-central \code{pchisq} is for \code{ncp < 80} computed from the Poisson mixture of central chi-squares and for larger \code{ncp} based on a C translation of Ding, C. G. (1992) Algorithm AS275: Computing the non-central chi-squared distribution function. \emph{Appl.Statist.}, \bold{41} 478--482. which computes the lower tail only (so the upper tail suffers from cancellation). The non-central \code{qchisq} is based on inversion of \code{pchisq}. } \references{ Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) \emph{The New S Language}. Wadsworth \& Brooks/Cole. Johnson, N. L., Kotz, S. and Balakrishnan, N. (1995) \emph{Continuous Univariate Distributions}, chapters 18 (volume 1) and 29 (volume 2). Wiley, New York. } \seealso{ A central chi-squared distribution with \eqn{n} degrees of freedom is the same as a Gamma distribution with \code{shape} \eqn{\alpha = n/2}{a = n/2} and \code{scale} \eqn{\sigma = 2}{s = 2}. Hence, see \code{\link{dgamma}} for the Gamma distribution. } \examples{ dchisq(1, df=1:3) pchisq(1, df= 3) pchisq(1, df= 3, ncp = 0:4)# includes the above x <- 1:10 ## Chi-squared(df = 2) is a special exponential distribution all.equal(dchisq(x, df=2), dexp(x, 1/2)) all.equal(pchisq(x, df=2), pexp(x, 1/2)) ## non-central RNG -- df=0 is ok for ncp > 0: Z0 has point mass at 0! Z0 <- rchisq(100, df = 0, ncp = 2.) graphics::stem(Z0) \dontrun{## visual testing ## do P-P plots for 1000 points at various degrees of freedom L <- 1.2; n <- 1000; pp <- ppoints(n) op <- par(mfrow = c(3,3), mar= c(3,3,1,1)+.1, mgp= c(1.5,.6,0), oma = c(0,0,3,0)) for(df in 2^(4*rnorm(9))) { plot(pp, sort(pchisq(rr <- rchisq(n,df=df, ncp=L), df=df, ncp=L)), ylab="pchisq(rchisq(.),.)", pch=".") mtext(paste("df = ",formatC(df, digits = 4)), line= -2, adj=0.05) abline(0,1,col=2) } mtext(expression("P-P plots : Noncentral "* chi^2 *"(n=1000, df=X, ncp= 1.2)"), cex = 1.5, font = 2, outer=TRUE) par(op)} } \keyword{distribution}