drawfromtruncatedquadratic_ext.m

# This is file drawfromtruncatedquadratic_ext.m
# written by Dr. Daniel C. Hatton 

# Daniel Hatton can be contacted on <dan.hatton@physics.org> 

# Copyright (C) 2022 Dr. Daniel C. Hatton

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# This is a script in the Octave scientific programming language.

# Its purpose is to print to STDOUT a single sample from a
# truncated quadratic distribution, which is suggested by
# Jeffreys:1961:TP as a noninformative prior for a parameter
# constrained to lie between lower and upper bounds

addpath(fileparts(mfilename('fullpath'))) ;
output_precision(floor(-log(eps(1))/log(10))) ;
drawfromtruncatedquadratic(str2num(argv(){1}),str2num(argv(){2}))