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Re: comparison of gsl "C" and Nag "C"
- From: Brian Gough <bjg at network-theory dot co dot uk>
- To: narayan krishnan <msg4narayan at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 20:52:35 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: comparison of gsl "C" and Nag "C"
- References: <20020514063149.49856.qmail@web14911.mail.yahoo.com>
narayan krishnan writes:
> Hi there!
> i'm jus comparing NAG "C" and GSL scientific libraries. In GSL
> the chapter statistics has all the basic functions for
> mean,skewness,kutorsis,max,min... But in NAG "C" they cover more
> functions like poisson distribution,binomial distribution etc...
> These distributions are available in GSL as Random number
> Distributions.
> As i'm very weak in statistics can u please guide whether these
> are same as NAG "c" functions.
GSL provides a probability density function (pdfs) for each
distribution.
For the additional cumulative distribution functions (cdfs) provided
by NAG the best GPL'ed source is the statistics library provided by
GNU R (www.r-project.org).
regards
Brian Gough