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Re: st: Fast calculation of a generalized hypergeometric probability


From   Jeph Herrin <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Fast calculation of a generalized hypergeometric probability
Date   Mon, 04 May 2009 21:01:34 -0400

Not very clear on your problem, but have you tried to apply
the function -hypergeometricp- ?



Tiago V. Pereira wrote:
Dear all,

I have a set of large 2x3 tables and I would like to compute the
probability of each configuration (given fixed margins).

Using

exp(lnfactorial(k)-lnfactorial(n)-lnfactorial(k-n)) for a combinatorial
function k out of n works fine for small tables, but overflow for large
numbers.


Since there is a great chance that you know shortcuts for the
generalized hypergeometric probability, I would appreciate any advice.

All the best,

Tiago




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