----- Original Message -----
From: Camilo La Rota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 4:07 PM
Subject: quantiles, how to calculate?
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to find a good way to calculate quantiles from the normal
> distribution, an algorithm that can be
> implemented efficiently in C.
>
> I have read some statistics books and I find a good aproximation formula
> to calculate
> values of the CDF function, but not of its inverse...
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
>
> Camilo
>
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>......................................................................
The inverse of the standard normal distribution N(0,1) is a straightforward
computation involving infinite series. It just takes time to converge. I
have it in QuickBasic if you are interested.
DAH
