R help - Dec 2003 - Binomial distribution & Catherine Loader's paper

Hi,

I've been trying, without success to find a copy of the paper, by Catherine
Loader, that describes the algorithn underlying the rbinom() and associated
functions.  The title is "Fast and Accurate Computation of Binomial
Probabilities." All of the links to the paper that I've seen (including
in
the R docs) lead nowhere (i.e. are 404). I've sent Dr. Loader several
emails, but have not received a response.

Does anyone have a copy of this paper?

Please reply directly to me as I'm not a subscriber to this list.

Thank you.

Aries Arditi, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow in Vision Science
Arlene R. Gordon Research Institute
Lighthouse International
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On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 13:23, Aries Arditi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying, without success to find a copy of the paper, by
Catherine
> Loader, that describes the algorithn underlying the rbinom() and associated
> functions.  The title is "Fast and Accurate Computation of Binomial
> Probabilities." All of the links to the paper that I've seen
(including in
> the R docs) lead nowhere (i.e. are 404). I've sent Dr. Loader several
> emails, but have not received a response.
> 
> Does anyone have a copy of this paper?
> 
> Please reply directly to me as I'm not a subscriber to this list.
> 
> Thank you.

A quick Google search turns up the following:

http://kiefer.stat.cwru.edu/~catherine/

That is her main contact page.  There is a list of publications here:

http://kiefer.stat.cwru.edu/~catherine/pubs.html

There is a link to the paper (as a Postscript file) at the bottom of
that page, however the link appears to be dead.

You can e-mail her using catherine at cwru.edu

HTH,

Marc Schwartz