Re: [Boost-users] [math/distributions] calculating p-value?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [math/distributions] calculating p-value?
From: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-09 11:10:03

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Christian Meesters
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 3:16 PM
> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [math/distributions] calculating p-value?

> Actually I didn't read the testing sources. However, are the links to
> the math.pdf broken? (Perhaps it's just me, who cannot download this pdf
> right now. 

I think you need to download all the Boost pdf's separately from Sourceforge.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/index.html

 is of course the html version which is identical.
 
> The solution: I did indeed make a most stupid mistake: When you
> miscalculate N, the distribution you compare against is wrong and in the
> extreme, you get only zeros back (which happend to me). Arrgh!
> *headbang* ;-)

With all Boost.Math using try'n'catch is *ALWAYS* a good idea - to get the helpful error messages.

Paul