At Mon, 2 Feb 2009 01:52:41 -0500, dorkusmonkey wrote: > > On p. 218 for my copy of the gsl reference, chapter 19.13 "The Levy > skew alpha-Stable Distribution" I noticed that the plot of the > probability distribution function, p(x), (for alpha=1.0, beta=1.0, > scale=1.0) has a maximum at around y=0.06 or so. I have estimated the > pdf myself and have found the peak for the same parameters to be > nearer to 0.3. Are you sure that the plot of the pdf (p(x)) is > correct? >
Thanks for the email. You're correct, comparing it against a histogram of random variates shows the same difference---I must have generated the plot with different parameters from the ones in the title. I will regenerate it for the next release. -- Brian Gough (GSL Maintainer) Support freedom by joining the FSF! http://www.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom/join_fsf?referrer=37 _______________________________________________ Bug-gsl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gsl
