Full_Name: Jerry W. Lewis
Version: 2.7.0
OS: Windows XP Professional
Submission from: (NULL) (198.180.131.16)


The current distribution function naming convention inherited from S (d*, p*,
q*, r* for pdf/pmf, cdf, quantile, & random numbers) is inadequate for
noncentral distributions, where there is frequently a need to solve the equation
p*(...)=p for the noncentrality parameter instead of the quantile.

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