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Alex Herbert resolved STATISTICS-38.
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    Resolution: Implemented

> Optimise use of the Gamma function in the PoissonDistribution
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>                 Key: STATISTICS-38
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STATISTICS-38
>             Project: Apache Commons Statistics
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: distribution
>    Affects Versions: 1.0
>            Reporter: Alex Herbert
>            Priority: Minor
>
> The Poisson distribution currently allows user configured tolerances for 
> computing the Gamma functions for the CDF. These may not be necessary and it 
> should be investigated. The version of the Gamma function used by the Poisson 
> distribution may not be the same as
>  those that required these tolerances in Commons Math 2 (use of the 
> tolerances go as far back as the commit history in the git repo).
> Repeated calling of the RegularizedGamma.P and Q functions from numbers would 
> benefit from allowing pre-computation of the the log( x ) component in the 
> RegularizedGamma function. In this case x is the Poisson mean. See also 
> NUMBERS-167 which discusses pre-computation of the LogGamma(a) component of 
> the input arguments a and x.



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