2011/11/29 Sébastien Brisard <sebastien.bris...@m4x.org>:
> Hi Mikkel
>>
>> Thanks for discovering this! I did the implementation, and apparently
>> assumed notation as the referred source. Sorry for this.
>>
> I think there is nothing wrong in the source. Only, you adopted a
> different definition of the random variable represented by the
> implemented PascalDistribution:
> 1. In wikipedia, the r-parameter is the total number of failures,
> 2. In the CM implementation, the Javadoc states that r is the total
> number of successes, and the PMF is (correctly) derived accordingly.
>>
>> We should also check the variance - this might be suffering from wrong
>> notation as well.
>>
> Yes, I'll do that, too!
>>
>> Cheers, Mikkel.
>>
>>
> Now is not a good time to work on o.a.c.m.distribution, since
> Christian is working on MATH-703. Once this is done, I'll commit a
> patch to correct this. You will be very welcome to review the changes
> (except of course if you want to alter your baby yourself ;) ).
No, you are more than welcome to do the patch and I'll review it :-). Thanks!

Cheers, Mikkel.
> Sébastien
>
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