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								      This library is divided into three interconnected parts:
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								      <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.main_intro.statistical_distributions"></a></span><a class="link" href="main_intro.html#math_toolkit.main_intro.statistical_distributions">Statistical
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								      Distributions</a>
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								      Provides a reasonably comprehensive set of <a class="link" href="../dist.html" title="Chapter 5. Statistical Distributions and Functions">statistical
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								      distributions</a>, upon which higher level statistical tests can be built.
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								      The initial focus is on the central <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univariate" target="_top">univariate
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								      </a> <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/StatisticalDistribution.html" target="_top">distributions</a>.
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								      Both <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ContinuousDistribution.html" target="_top">continuous</a>
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								      (like <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/normal_dist.html" title="Normal (Gaussian) Distribution">normal</a>
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								      & <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/f_dist.html" title="F Distribution">Fisher</a>) and
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								      <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DiscreteDistribution.html" target="_top">discrete</a>
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								      (like <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/binomial_dist.html" title="Binomial Distribution">binomial</a>
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								      & <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/poisson_dist.html" title="Poisson Distribution">Poisson</a>)
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								      distributions are provided.
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								      A <a class="link" href="stat_tut.html" title="Statistical Distributions Tutorial">comprehensive tutorial is provided</a>,
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								      along with a series of <a class="link" href="stat_tut/weg.html" title="Worked Examples">worked examples</a>
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								      illustrating how the library is used to conduct statistical tests.
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								      <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.main_intro.mathematical_special_functions"></a></span><a class="link" href="main_intro.html#math_toolkit.main_intro.mathematical_special_functions">Mathematical
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								      Special Functions</a>
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								      Provides a small number of high quality <a class="link" href="../special.html" title="Chapter 6. Special Functions">special functions</a>,
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								      initially these were concentrated on functions used in statistical applications
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								      along with those in the <a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1836.pdf" target="_top">Technical
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								      Report on C++ Library Extensions</a>.
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								      The function families currently implemented are the gamma, beta & erf functions
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								      along with the incomplete gamma and beta functions (four variants of each)
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								      and all the possible inverses of these, plus digamma, various factorial functions,
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								      Bessel functions, elliptic integrals, sinus cardinals (along with their hyperbolic
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								      variants), inverse hyperbolic functions, Legrendre/Laguerre/Hermite polynomials
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								      and various special power and logarithmic functions.
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								      All the implementations are fully generic and support the use of arbitrary
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								      "real-number" types, including <a href="../../../../../libs/multiprecision/doc/html/index.html" target="_top">Boost.Multiprecision</a>,
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								      although they are optimised for use with types with known-about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significand" target="_top">significand
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								      (or mantissa)</a> sizes: typically <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">float</span></code>,
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								      The section <a class="link" href="internals_overview.html" title="Overview">Internal tools</a>
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								      provides many of the tools required to implement mathematical special functions:
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								      hopefully the presence of these will encourage other authors to contribute
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								      more special function implementations in the future.
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								      Some tools are now considered well-tried and their signatures stable and unlikely
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								      There is a fairly comprehensive set of root finding both <a class="link" href="roots/roots_noderiv.html" title="Root Finding Without Derivatives">root-finding
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								      without derivatives</a> and <a class="link" href="roots/roots_deriv.html" title="Root Finding With Derivatives: Newton-Raphson, Halley & Schröder">root-finding
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								      with derivatives</a> with derivative support, and function minimization
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								      using <a class="link" href="roots/brent_minima.html" title="Locating Function Minima using Brent's algorithm">Brent's method</a>.
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								      Other <a class="link" href="internals_overview.html" title="Overview">Internal tools</a>
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								      are currently still considered experimental: they are "exposed implementation
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								      details" whose interfaces and/or implementations may change without notice.
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								      There are helpers for the <a class="link" href="internals/series_evaluation.html" title="Series Evaluation">evaluation
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								      of infinite series</a>, <a class="link" href="internals/cf.html" title="Continued Fraction Evaluation">continued
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								      fractions</a> and <a class="link" href="roots/rational.html" title="Polynomial and Rational Function Evaluation">rational approximations</a>.
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								      allows for the locating of minimax rational approximations.
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								      There are also (experimental) classes for the <a class="link" href="roots/polynomials.html" title="Polynomials">manipulation
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								      of polynomials</a>, for <a class="link" href="internals/error_test.html" title="Relative Error and Testing">testing
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								      a special function against tabulated test data</a>, and for the <a class="link" href="internals/test_data.html" title="Graphing, Profiling, and Generating Test Data for Special Functions">rapid
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								      generation of test data</a> and/or data for output to an external graphing
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								      Anton Bikineev, Paul A. Bristow, Marco Guazzone, Christopher Kormanyos, Hubert
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								      Holin, Bruno Lalande, John Maddock, Jeremy Murphy, Johan Råde, Gautam Sewani,
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								      Benjamin Sobotta, Thijs van den Berg, Daryle Walker and Xiaogang Zhang<p>
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								        Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
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								        file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt" target="_top">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)
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