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From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-06 13:48:14
>-----Original Message-----
>From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
>[mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Johan Råde
>Sent: 06 May 2008 17:38
>To: boost_at_[hidden]
>Subject: Re: [boost]
>[MathStatisticalDistributions]Hypergeometricdistribution
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>Paul A Bristow wrote:
>> What accuracy does Johan (and others) *need* for his(their) application?
>I'm working with biological data.
>Almost all the input data have errors around 10 - 30% (or more) :-)
>Two correct decimals is more than my customers need.
>But other users do of course have other needs.
Scan of the code used in Krishnamoorthy's book, FWIW.
His Statcalc program presumably uses something like this (in C).
So this could be a quick'n'dirty solution. But probably simpler to do than Wu's magic version (that looks a *lot* cleverer than I
am ;-)
Paul
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