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Re: [Bug-gsl] bug in gsl_ran_multinomial_lnpdf function


From: Brian Gough
Subject: Re: [Bug-gsl] bug in gsl_ran_multinomial_lnpdf function
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:04:31 +0100
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At Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:48:54 -0400,
mingxi wrote:
> I encountered a bug in gsl_ran_multinomial_lnpdf function.
> The case this function does not consider is the degenerated cases.
> Suppose I have input size_t K=3, p[]={0.5,0.5,0}; n[]={2,3,0}. This 
> function will not return correct results.
> 
> In this case, we can just ignore the last class probability, which is 
> p[]={0.5,0.5}, n[]={2,3}.

Thanks for the bug report.  I see the problem, and will correct that
in the next release.

-- 
Brian Gough





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