Algorithm AS 245: A Robust and Reliable Algorithm for the Logarithm of the Gamma Function

DOI10.2307/2348078zbMath0715.62032OpenAlexW2803043247MaRDI QIDQ3201268

Allan J. MacLeod

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2348078

zbMATH Keywords

gamma functionrobustnessreliabilityFortran 77rational polynomialsalgorithm AS 245

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistics (62-04) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99) Statistical distribution theory (62E99)

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