DCDFLIB Library of Routines for Cumulative Distribution Functions, Inverses, and Other Parameters C and Fortran Barry W. Brown James Lovato Kathy Russell LATEST VERSION: 1.0 CAPABILITIES DCDFLIB (Double precision Cumulative Distribution Function LIBrary) is a collection of routines that calculate cumulative distribution functions, inverses, and parameters for common statistical distributions. DCDFLIB uses published algorithms where available, and literature citations are included in the documentation. Values associated with a statistical distribution include X, the upper limit of integration of the density, P, the cumulative distribution function evaluated at X, and auxillary parameters such as degrees of freedom. Given all but one such value, a routine in cdflib will calculate the one value. (CAVEAT: For the central and noncentral F, the cdf is sometimes not monotone in the degrees of freedom. For these parameters, there can be two answers. DCDFLIB finds an arbitrary one of the two in this case. Routines are provided for the following distributions. (1) Beta (2) Binomial (3) Chi-square (4) Noncentral Chi-square (5) F (6) Noncentral F (7) Gamma (8) Negative Binomial (9) Normal (10) Poisson (11) Student's t WHERE TO GET IT Software written by members of the section is freely available to anyone. Readers with Internet access and a browser might note the following web site addresses: University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Home Page: http://utmdacc.mdacc.tmc.edu/ Department of Biomathematics Home Page: http://odin.mdacc.tmc.edu/ Available Software: http://odin.mdacc.tmc.edu/anonftp/ Our code can also be obtained by anonymous ftp to odin.mdacc.tmc.edu. The index is on file ./pub/index. The index can be viewed by issuing the following Unix command: finger software@odin.mdacc.tmc.edu. HOW TO GET IT The source is in directory ./pub/source. Relevent files are: dcdflib.c-1.0-tar.Z: Source in Ansi C plus documentation. dcdflib.f-1.0-tar.Z: Source in Fortran 77 plus documentation. dcdflib.kr.c-1.0-tar.Z: Source in K&R C (old C) plus documentation. MSDOS versions are self-extracting files packaged with a licensed copy of PKZIP. ./msdos/dcdc10.exe: Source in ANSI C ./msdos/dcdf10.exe: Source in F77 Barry W. Brown Department of Biomathematics, Box 237 University of Texas M. D. Anderson Hospital 1515 Holcombe Blvd Houston, TX 77030 bwb@odin.mdacc.tmc.edu BACK TO *********************************************************************