function x = BetaRndFcn(a,b,c,d,NumDraws)
% BetaRndFcn: Draws matrices of data from the beta distribution.
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% USAGE:
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%       x = BetaRndFcn(a,b,c,d,NumDraws)
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% REQUIRED INPUT:  a (vector) with the a parameter of the beta distribution.
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%                  b (vector) with the b parameter of the beta distribution.
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%                  c (vector) with the lower bound parameter of the beta distribution.
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%                  d (vector) with the upper bound parameter of the beta distribution.
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%                  NumDraws (integer) with the number of draws of z
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% REQUIRED OUTPUT: x (matrix) of draws with dimension dim(a) x NumDraws
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%                       Written by: Anders Warne
%                                   New Area Wide Model Project
%                                   DG-R/EMO
%                                   European Central Bank (ECB)
%                                   Email: anders.warne@ecb.europa.eu
%                                   Copyright © 2006-2009 European Central Bank.
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%                       First version: August 28, 2006.
%                        This version: January 22, 2009.
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% LICENSE INFORMATION:
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%      YADA is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
%      it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
%      the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
%      (at your option) any later version.
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%      This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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%      MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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%
%      YADA is released under the GNU General Public License, Version 3,
%      29 June 2007 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. The current release of
%      the program was last modified by the ECB on the "This version" date
%      above.
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% CHANGELOG:
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% * 29-8-2006:  Added a missing ; character in the betarnd call.
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% * 9-11-2006:  Took the name change betarnd to YADAbetarnd into account.
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% * 13-11-2007: Updated the documentation.
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% * 23-5-2008:  Updated the documentation.
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% * 21-7-2008:  The function now checks if it should call the YADA version of "betarnd" or not.
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% * 23-7-2008:  The function now takes the lower and upper bound parameters as input.
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% * 22-01-2009: Updated the documentation.
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if nargin<3;
   NumDraws = 1;
end;
NumDraws = floor(NumDraws);
if NumDraws<1;
   NumDraws = 1;
end;
if exist('YADAbetarnd')==2;
   z = YADAbetarnd(a,b,length(a),NumDraws);
else;
   z = betarnd(a,b,length(a),NumDraws);
end;
x = (c*ones(1,NumDraws))+(((d-c)*ones(1,NumDraws)).*z);

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% end of BetaRndFcn.m
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