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Some time ago I mentioned the online version of the book "Numerical Recipes in C" http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/Numerical_Recipes/ and inadvertantly stirred up a hornets' nest. I obtained from this book code to calculate the Incomplete beta function. It appears in: 6.4 Incomplete Beta Function, Student?s Distribution, F-Distribution, Cumulative Binomial Distribution, p.226, and it calls the log-gamma function that appear...

...eling: > > "Numerical Recipes in C: the Art of Scientific Computing" (ISBN > > 0-521-43108-5) Copyright (C) 1988-1992 by Cambridge University Press. A > > Fortran version is also available, and both exist in PostScript and PDF. > > http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/Numerical_Recipes/ > > Um, not to put too fine a point on it: That is not a book I'd > recommend, and particularly not for the statistics sections. It's a > reasonable introductory text to numerical analysis subjects, but > according to people who really know the stuff, it is not to be truste...

As a complete newcomer I am attempting to learn to use R, but am finding it extremely difficult because I have not yet found an "Introduction to R". For over a week now I have monitored the R-help list, studied the R-FAQ and related documents, downloaded and run the Windows R and looked at the Help, downloaded early and late samples of the R-help archives, and searched for illuminating

...eling: > > "Numerical Recipes in C: the Art of Scientific Computing" (ISBN > > 0-521-43108-5) Copyright (C) 1988-1992 by Cambridge University Press. A > > Fortran version is also available, and both exist in PostScript and PDF. > > http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/Numerical_Recipes/ > > Um, not to put too fine a point on it: That is not a book I'd > recommend, and particularly not for the statistics sections. It's a > reasonable introductory text to numerical analysis subjects, but > according to people who really know the stuff, it is not to be trusted...