Thanks to Andy Liaw, Marc Schwartz, Dimitris Rizopoulos and Tamas Papp for quick replies. Before I sent the email, I found that it was written by Jim Lindsey, but I could not find further information on him, so I appreciate the links. Also, the Advanced Statistical Computing course notes look quite interesting. In particular, the function "gaulag" providing "Gauss-Laguerre" may help with a related problem, taking expected values with respect to gamma distributions. (Laguerre polynomials are orthogonal with respect to the a gamma distribution, and perform the same role as Hermite polynomials relative to a normal distribution.)

     Thanks again.  spencer graves

Tamas Papp wrote:

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 09:04:53AM +0200, Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote:


Dear Spencer,

In Dr. Gray's course notes for Advanced Statistical Computing
(Appendix of Chapter 6) there are some functions for computing
abscissas and corresponding weights for several Gaussian integration
rules:

http://icommons.harvard.edu/~hsph-bio248-01/Lecture_Notes/



Also have a look at


@Book{judd98,
 author =       {Judd, Kenneth L},
 title =        {Numerical methods in economics},
 publisher =    {MIT Press},
 year =         1998
}

especially one of the early chapters ("integration" is in its title,
but I don't have the book at the moment), which covers theory and
practice of numerical integration and quadrature rules.

Implementing these in R has been on my TODO list for a while, so I
would be happy to cooperate on this (but only in July or later).

Best,

Tamas




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