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Re: [Bug-gsl] possible bug in gsl_ran_dirichlet
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Brian Gough |
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Re: [Bug-gsl] possible bug in gsl_ran_dirichlet |
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Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:12:49 +0100 |
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At Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:12:54 +0100,
I J Wilson wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a bug - but I would not
> think that a randoim number generator should produce nans
> gsl_ran_dirichlet gives nan when given small values for
> parameters.
Thanks for the bug report. Do you know any way to calculate these
variates reliably when the a_i coefficients are small?
--
Brian Gough
Network Theory Ltd,
Publishing the GSL Manual - http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gsl/manual/