## Copyright (C) 2012 Rik Wehbring
## Copyright (C) 1995-2016 Kurt Hornik
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {} {} laplace_inv (@var{x})
## For each element of @var{x}, compute the quantile (the inverse of the CDF)
## at @var{x} of the Laplace distribution.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
## Description: Quantile function of the Laplace distribution

function inv = laplace_inv (x)

  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (iscomplex (x))
    error ("laplace_inv: X must not be complex");
  endif

  if (isa (x, "single"))
    inv = NaN (size (x), "single");
  else
    inv = NaN (size (x));
  endif

  k = (x >= 0) & (x <= 1);
  inv(k) = ((x(k) < 1/2) .* log (2 * x(k))
            - (x(k) > 1/2) .* log (2 * (1 - x(k))));

endfunction


%!shared x
%! x = [-1 0 0.5 1 2];
%!assert (laplace_inv (x), [NaN -Inf 0 Inf NaN])

## Test class of input preserved
%!assert (laplace_inv ([x, NaN]), [NaN -Inf 0 Inf NaN NaN])
%!assert (laplace_inv (single ([x, NaN])), single ([NaN -Inf 0 Inf NaN NaN]))

## Test input validation
%!error laplace_inv ()
%!error laplace_inv (1,2)
%!error laplace_inv (i)
