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James Kaufman commented on MATH-718:
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I just wanted to let you know that our open source project
(http://www.eclipse.org/stem/) needs this function and we are eagerly awaiting
the update. We are experiencing the issue of wrong values for large trials.
> inverseCumulativeProbability of BinomialDistribution returns wrong value for
> large trials.
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> Key: MATH-718
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-718
> Project: Commons Math
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 2.2, 3.0
> Reporter: Yuji Uchiyama
> Assignee: Sébastien Brisard
> Fix For: 3.1, 4.0
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> The inverseCumulativeProbability method of the BinomialDistributionImpl class
> returns wrong value for large trials. Following code will be reproduce the
> problem.
> {{System.out.println(new BinomialDistributionImpl(1000000,
> 0.5).inverseCumulativeProbability(0.5));}}
> This returns 499525, though it should be 499999.
> I'm not sure how it should be fixed, but the cause is that the
> cumulativeProbability method returns Infinity, not NaN. As the result the
> checkedCumulativeProbability method doesn't work as expected.
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