From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28881 invoked by alias); 2 Jun 2011 04:50:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 28873 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Jun 2011 04:50:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RFC_ABUSE_POST,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm24-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com (HELO nm24-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com) (98.139.91.226) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:49:55 +0000 Received: from [98.139.91.61] by nm24.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Jun 2011 04:49:54 -0000 Received: from [98.139.91.7] by tm1.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Jun 2011 04:49:54 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1007.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Jun 2011 04:49:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 34348 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Jun 2011 04:49:54 -0000 Message-ID: <459650.92078.qm@web110504.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.44.10.80] by web110504.mail.gq1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:49:54 PDT Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:50:00 -0000 From: Z F Subject: accuracy of gsl_cdf_binomial_P To: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-q2/txt/msg00016.txt.bz2 Hello everybody, I was wondering if someone could comment on the accuracy of gsl_cdf_binomial_P() function gsl implementation for large n (n is about a few thousand). for different values of p and when the result of cdf is in the tails ( small less then 0.05 and large -- above 0.95) Thank you very much ZF