[R] Accuracy problem in dchisq for non-central chi-squared

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Uffe Høgsbro Thygesen <uht at dfu.min.dk> writes:

> Any comments on this one?

Ahem. I went to look at the code and it stared me right in the face:

    const static int maxiter = 100;

That needs to be keyed to the actual value of lambda! At lambda=225,
we're not even at the mode of the weighting Poisson distibution which
has mean lambda/2.

I think we can sneak a fix for that one in before the release of 1.2.0
tomorrow.  (pnchisq.c has 

    const static int itrmax = 10000;

which I should probably clone for now, but there must be a better
long-term solution for both of them. Anyone need a small exercise for
their students?)

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