From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
To: Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 58929@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58929: 29.0.50; Calc: finding roots utpn doesn't work as advertised
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 12:00:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B84188E4-6A50-43C6-B7B5-C6AC5C7A404D@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878rkpci9l.fsf@rfc20.org>
5 nov. 2022 kl. 20.29 skrev Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org>:
> I arrived here because I wanted to use calc to compute 95th and 99th
> percentile confidence intervals of some benchmarking results using the
> Student's t-distribution.
Quantile computations are common and useful enough that they may merit convenience functions in Calc in the future.
> The patch I sent previously, with my (hopefully) useful suggestions in
> the user manual, is probably the end of my useful contribution here.
Your manual changes are fine as far as I'm concerned, but again I haven't worked through them in detail -- maybe you could add tests to confirm the convergence for your recommended starting guesses? That would both help validating your patch and protect against future regressions.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-08 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-31 18:10 bug#58929: 29.0.50; Calc: finding roots utpn doesn't work as advertised Matt Armstrong
2022-11-01 16:51 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-11-01 22:00 ` Matt Armstrong
2022-11-03 8:53 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-11-03 9:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-05 19:29 ` Matt Armstrong
2022-11-08 11:00 ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
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