Hi Patrick, I've put the following together:
http://www.samason.me.uk/hacking-the-gsl Is that the sort of thing you'd consider linking to? Maybe with an accompanying sentence of "log-probability density functions"? Thanks, Sam On 9 July 2012 18:39, Patrick Alken <[email protected]> wrote: > The best option would be to make a standalone extension (see the main > gsl page for examples), so people can look at it and try it out. We can > add the extension to the main web page and possibly add it to the main > source code later if it looks useful. > > On 07/09/2012 11:29 AM, Sam Mason wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I sent the following message to the help-gsl list a while ago, but >> haven't received a reply... >> >> Is this sort of contribution useful to the project? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Sam >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Sam Mason <[email protected]> >> Date: 15 June 2012 17:59 >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I sent a message to this a couple of months ago enquiring about the >> availability of log-density functions. I've been using my own >> versions of these since then, and thought it would be good to send >> them back to the community. >> >> I've gone through most of the distributions and added in code >> calculating their log-densities. I've copied the naming and layout >> convention of the dirichlet distribution; which already had the >> gsl_ran_dirichlet_pdf() and gsl_ran_dirichlet_lnpdf() functions. I've >> not updated the docs yet, as I wanted to gage interest first. >> >> The code compiles and the tests run successfully on my computer. I've >> also used the test code as a mini-benchmark, and the changed code >> takes basically the same amount of time to execute (median = 1.0038 >> times GSL 1.15, 95%CI=1.0009-1.0064). >> >> Let me know what would make this more useful. >> >> Sam > >
