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[bug-gsl] Re: bug with function gsl_ran_beta (2008-11-20)

From: Brian Gough <bjg@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug with function gsl_ran_beta
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:23:51 +0000
To: "Wang, Frank" <frank.wang@............>
Cc: "bug-gsl@gnu.org" <bug-gsl@gnu.org>

At Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:08:41 -0400,
Wang, Frank wrote:
> May you please help with the following problem when simulate Beta distribution using gsl library:

Hello,

Can you check what version of GSL are you using? We switched to the
Marsaglia Tsang algorithm for gsl_ran_gamma in version 1.9, and it
should not have this problem. I will apply your fix to the old
version of the function though, thanks.

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Brian Gough

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