## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997  Kurt Hornik
## 
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## usage:  geometric_pdf (x, p)
##
## For each element of x, compute the probability density function (PDF)
## at x of the geometric distribution with parameter p.

## Author:  KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Description:  PDF of the geometric distribution

function pdf = geometric_pdf (x, p)
  
  if (nargin != 2)
    usage ("geometric_pdf (x, p)");
  endif

  [retval, x, p] = common_size (x, p);
  if (retval > 0)
    error (["geometric_pdf:  ", ...
	    "x and p must be of common size or scalar"]);
  endif
  
  [r, c] = size (x);
  s = r * c;
  x   = reshape (x, 1, s);
  p   = reshape (p, 1, s);
  cdf = zeros (1, s);

  k = find (isnan (x) | !(p >= 0) | !(p <= 1));
  if any (k)
    pdf(k) = NaN * ones (1, length (k));
  endif
  
  ## Just for the fun of it ...
  k = find ((x == Inf) & (p == 0));
  if any (k)
    pdf(k) = ones (1, length (k));
  endif
  
  k = find ((x >= 0) & (x < Inf) & (x == round (x)) ...
      & (p > 0) & (p <= 1));
  if any (k)
    pdf(k) = p(k) .* ((1 - p(k)) .^ x(k));
  endif
 
  pdf = reshape (pdf, r, c);
  
endfunction