Re: [Gretl-devel] Gamma probability density function

Maybe Matlab calculates gamma(X, a, b), not gamma (a, b, X)? On 16/02/2016 13:08, Artur T. wrote: > Dear all, > > I am just trying to replicate this MATLAB example of the Gamma > probability density function: > > http://de.mathworks.com/help/stats/gampdf.html?requestedDomain=www.mathwo... > > According to this, Matlab yields for shape=scale=1 and a x-vector seq(1,5) : > y = 0.3679 0.3033 0.2388 0.1947 0.1637 > > but with gretl I obtain correctly (just checked it with some statistical > tables) > y (1 x 5) > 0.36788 0.13534 0.049787 0.018316 0.0067379 > > <hansl> > mu = seq(1,5) > y = pdf(g,1,1,mu) > </hansl> > > Just out of curiosity: What is Matlab doing? (the same results are > obtained by Octave) > > Artur