## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997  Kurt Hornik
## 
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## usage:  chisquare_inv (x, n)
##
## For each element of x, compute the quantile (the inverse of the CDF)
## at x of the chisquare distribution with n degrees of freedom.
  
## Author:  TT <Teresa.Twaroch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Description:  Quantile function of the chi-square distribution
  
function inv = chisquare_inv (x, n)
  
  if (nargin != 2)
    usage ("chisquare_inv (x, n)");
  endif

  [retval, x, n] = common_size (x, n);
  if (retval > 0)
    error ("chisquare_inv:  x and n must be of common size or scalar");
  endif

  inv = gamma_inv (x, n / 2, 1 / 2);
  
  ## Allow only for (positive) integer n.
  k = find (n != round (n));
  if any (k)
    fprintf (stderr, ...
	     "WARNING:  n should be positive integer\n");
    [r, c] = size (x);
    inv = reshape (inv, 1, r * c);
    inv(k) = NaN * ones (1, length (k));
    inv = reshape (inv, r, c);
  endif
  
endfunction
