Dieter,
Thanks for the great work on gamma functions.
I agree with Ray and Robert that the gamma_* names are
preferable.
And I also find gamma_greek hard to remember/understand.
How about gamma_incomplete_compl()?
Kostas
Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 9/5/08, Dieter Kaiser <drdieterkaiser at web.de> wrote:
>
>> Or we could use names like
>>
>> gamma_incomplete(a,z)
>> gamma_greek(a,z) = 1 - gamma_incomplete(a,z)
>> gamma_incomplete_gen(a,z1,z2) = gamma_incomplete(a,z1)-gamma_incomplete(a,z2)
>> gamma_incomplete_reg(a,z) = gamma_incomplete(a,z)/gamma(a)
>> gamma_incomplete_gen_reg(a,z1,z2)= gamma_incomplete_gen(a,z1,z2)/gamma(a)
>
> Dieter, as usual I have only 1/2 clue about what's going on technically
> so I'll restrict myself to some comments about the names.
>
> I'm in favor of big-endian names so the above with gamma_adjective
> makes sense to me.
>
> The "greek" bit seems obscure --- surely there is some more widely
> recognized word we could substitute for "greek".
>
> I'm usually opposed to cryptic abbreviations in seldom-used functions,
> but spelling out "generalized" and "regularized" make for very long names ...
> Maybe that's how it should be, I'm undecided. Be that as it may, if an
> abbreviation is used, I would suggest "genl" for "generalized".
>
> Log-gamma and gamma inverse functions would be great too,
> but there's only so much time in a day, so whenever you want to work
> on those, that's terrific.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Robert Dodier
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