Silly error somewhere in my code
1 回表示 (過去 30 日間)
古いコメントを表示
Would appreciate someone's help in spotting a silly error (or bad math) somewhere here. Its difficult to explain precisely without being able to attach some equations but basically I'm trying to establish equivalents between q5 and q6 below. But instead I get 0.21 & 0.37 and can't see my own error.
q5 is the integral of a product of a quadratic polynomial and the norm pdf q6 is the normal moment-generating-function in t=2,1,0 where each moment is multiplied by its respective polynomial coefficient h1,h2,h3. I can't see why these are not equivalent. If the problem isn't clear, please email me at mark.whirdy@gmail.com and I will send the equations which should help(can't attach a doc here unfortunately).
mu = 0; sigma = 1;
h1 = -0.003;
h2 = 0.10;
h3 = 0.21;
a = -10^10; b = 10^10;
g = @(mu,sigma,h1,h2,h3)(quad(@(x)((h1*x.^2 + h2*x.^1 + h3*x.^0).*normpdf(x,mu,sigma)), a, b));
q5 = g(mu,sigma,h1,h2,h3)
t = (2:-1:0)';
h = [h1, h2, h3];
q6 = h * exp(mu*t + 0.5.*t.*sigma^2) % moment generating function
1 件のコメント
AC
2012 年 7 月 4 日
Not the answer but a first error in the code is a square missing in q6. If I remember correctly, the moment generating function of a gaussian is
exp(mu*t + 0.5.*t.^2*sigma^2)
That doesn't solve your problem unfortunately, but it's a start!
採用された回答
AC
2012 年 7 月 4 日
編集済み: AC
2012 年 7 月 4 日
This time a real answer: it's a math problem. If that's ok, I'll answer with some latex code.
Let f be the norm(0,1) pdf
Q5= \int (h_1 x^2+h_2 x +h_3) f(x) dx
= h_1 E(X^2) + h_2 E(X) + h_3
Editing: the following was not correct (wrong definition of moment generating function)
*********************************
Now, the moment generating function M(t) gives:
M(0)=1
M(1)=1+E(X)
M(2)=1+E(X)+2E(X^2)
So Q6 would look like this:
Q6=h_1 M(2) + h_2 M(1) + h_3 M(0)
=h_1 (1+E(X)+2E(X^2)) + h_2 (1+E(X)) + h_3
************************************
And is therefore not equal to Q5.
Convinced?
3 件のコメント
Jan
2012 年 7 月 5 日
Mark Whirdy has written:
Hi Anne-Claire
You're absolutely right - its not a coding error, its a much more basic error in reasoning the problem.
Thanks for your help here.
Mark
[EDITED, Jan, please post comments as comments, not as answers]
その他の回答 (0 件)
参考
カテゴリ
Help Center および File Exchange で Startup and Shutdown についてさらに検索
Community Treasure Hunt
Find the treasures in MATLAB Central and discover how the community can help you!
Start Hunting!