| Authors: | Robert J. Boik, James F. Robinson-Cox |
| Title: | [download] (11270)Derivatives of the Incomplete Beta Function |
| Reference: | Vol. 3, Issue 1, Mar 1998 Submitted 1997-12-09, Accepted 1998-03-15 |
| Type: | Article |
| Abstract: | The incomplete beta function is defined as where Beta(p, q) is the beta function. Dutka (1981) gave a history of the development and numerical evaluation of this function. In this article, an algorithm for computing first and second derivatives of Ix,p,q with respect to p and q is described. The algorithm is useful, for example, when fitting parameters to a censored beta, truncated beta, or a truncated beta-binomial model. |
| Paper: | [download] (11270)Derivatives of the Incomplete Beta Function (application/pdf, 134 KB) |
| Supplements: | [download] (1985)beta.der.f: Program to test algorithm INBEDER (application/octet-stream, 25.2 KB) |
| [download] (997)Code.zip: Code files (application/zip, 16.2 KB) |
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| Resources: | BibTeX | OAI |
