[R] Non-central distributions

[(Ted Harding)]

Thanks, Peter! (Must try to give this some thought ...).

Anyway, in this respect R is still ahead of S-Plus, which
doesn't seem to carry ANY non-centrality as standard!
(Except possibly obscurely tucked away in some add-on library).

Ted.

On 17-Oct-02 Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk> writes:
> 
>> only the CDF functions 'pt' and 'pf' allow this parameter to
>> be set. (If you try in the others, you get the message
>> "unused argument(s) (ncp ...)").
>> 
>> Why is this? Being able to set it would be just as useful ...
> 
> We don't have any references on how to calculate them! (Except for the
> brute-force approaches of numeric differentiation, root finding, and
> transformation of uniform distributions.)

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