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Re: st: RE: large numbers in comb(n,k) function: no success


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: large numbers in comb(n,k) function: no success
Date   Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:09:32 +0000 (GMT)

--- On Thu, 5/2/09, Inna Becher wrote:
> I have to calculate  probabilities for observations to be
> sampled. That's why I use exp with lnfactorial...

Looks like you want to calculate a likelihood function. Is that right?
If so, then you can use the fact that you almost always maximize the log likelihood, which will alow you to avoid taking the exp of lnfactorial.  

-- Maarten

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