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Re: [Bug-gsl] two bugs gsl_ran_multinomial on degenerate input, suggesti
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Brian Gough |
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Re: [Bug-gsl] two bugs gsl_ran_multinomial on degenerate input, suggestions, and working code |
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Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:12:23 +0100 |
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At Sat, 1 Sep 2007 02:44:18 -0000 (GMT),
address@hidden wrote:
> It appears gsl_ran_multinomial was coded not to crap out due to incidental
> negatives in the probability dist. due to floating point artifacts, but
> the handling of these terms was inconsistent and could lead to silently
> absurd results.
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Thanks for the suggestions! I'll incorporate those optimisations after
the next release.
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Brian Gough
Network Theory Ltd,
Publishing Free Software Manuals --- http://www.network-theory.co.uk/