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Function Reference: cauchypdf

statistics: y = cauchypdf (x, x0, gamma)

Cauchy probability density function (PDF).

For each element of x, compute the probability density function (PDF) of the Cauchy distribution with location parameter x0 and scale parameter gamma. The size of y is the common size of x, x0, and gamma. A scalar input functions as a constant matrix of the same size as the other inputs.

Further information about the Cauchy distribution can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution

Input arguments must be double or single; integer, logical, and character arrays are rejected. MATLAB accepts a character array and evaluates it at the character codes, which Octave deliberately does not, since a character array is an integer type and integers are refused too.

See also: cauchycdf, cauchyinv, cauchyrnd

Source Code: cauchypdf

Plot various PDFs from the Cauchy distribution

 x = -5:0.01:5;
 y1 = cauchypdf (x, 0, 0.5);
 y2 = cauchypdf (x, 0, 1);
 y3 = cauchypdf (x, 0, 2);
 y4 = cauchypdf (x, -2, 1);
 plot (x, y1, '-b', x, y2, '-g', x, y3, '-r', x, y4, '-c')
 grid on
 xlim ([-5, 5])
 ylim ([0, 0.7])
 legend ({'x0 = 0, γ = 0.5', 'x0 = 0, γ = 1', ...
          'x0 = 0, γ = 2', 'x0 = -2, γ = 1'}, 'location', 'northeast')
 title ('Cauchy PDF')
 xlabel ('values in x')
 ylabel ('density')
plotted figure