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Re: levy_*_pdf missing
- From: Brian Gough <bjg at network-theory dot co dot uk>
- To: Achim Gaedke <Achim dot Gaedke at uni-koeln dot de>
- Cc: gsl discussion list <gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:07:49 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: levy_*_pdf missing
- References: <3C583BFC.748CF1B@uni-koeln.de>
Achim Gaedke writes:
> While adapting the rng module of pygsl to the cvs version of gsl, I
> found that there were no probability density functions to
> double gsl_ran_levy (const gsl_rng * r, const double c, const
> double alpha); double gsl_ran_levy_skew (const gsl_rng * r, const
> double c, const double alpha, const double beta);
> Maybe there is a special reason, or someone on the list likes to
> contribute them...
The function cannot be computed in closed form unfortunately, so it
was left otu -- I think there are a few other cases like that.
Brian