Re: [math] tail probabilites

2015-01-11 Thread Phil Steitz
On 1/11/15 10:04 AM, Phil Steitz wrote: > On 1/11/15 9:26 AM, Gilles wrote: >> On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 10:55:53 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: >>> There is a feature request implicit in MATH-1185 - to add direct >>> computation of (upper) tail probabilities, so users can avoid loss >>> of significance error

Re: [math] tail probabilites

2015-01-11 Thread Phil Steitz
On 1/11/15 9:26 AM, Gilles wrote: > On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 10:55:53 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: >> There is a feature request implicit in MATH-1185 - to add direct >> computation of (upper) tail probabilities, so users can avoid loss >> of significance errors when computing them from cumulative >> proba

Re: [math] tail probabilites

2015-01-11 Thread Gilles
On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 10:55:53 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: There is a feature request implicit in MATH-1185 - to add direct computation of (upper) tail probabilities, so users can avoid loss of significance errors when computing them from cumulative probabilities, which is the only thing they can do

[math] tail probabilites

2015-01-09 Thread Phil Steitz
There is a feature request implicit in MATH-1185 - to add direct computation of (upper) tail probabilities, so users can avoid loss of significance errors when computing them from cumulative probabilities, which is the only thing they can do with current implementations. In some cases, we can fair