Re: betadistinv.c patch

[John Darrington]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:59:48AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:
     
     > The bisection method used in betadistinv.c to get an initial
     > approximation wasn't getting close enough to the right
     > answer for p=.99, a=2.5 and b=5. I fixed this, and tidied
     > up a bit to make the algorithm a little more robust. 
     
     Thanks!  I committed your fix, and updated the test cases.
     
     This takes care of the problems cited by John, as far as I can
     tell.
     

Thanks Jason.

I'm happier with that now.   Note that
test/expressions/randist/{f,beta}.out are now identical to the
original versions.


J'


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