[Rd] Re: [R] Bug in qchisq? (PR#875)

[maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch]

>>>>> "PD" == p dalgaard <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> writes:

    PD> Kenneth Cabrera <krcabrer@epm.net.co> writes:
    >> Hello developers and users:
    >> 
    >> My system fails (the computer freezes) when I use the ncp  parameter,
    >> with the lower.tail=FALSE option in the qchisq function.
    >> 
    >> qchisq(0.025,31,ncp=1,lower.tail=FALSE)

    PD> Yup, that's a bug. We have in pnchisq.c

    PD> 48   for (ux = 1.0; pnchisq(ux, n, lambda, lower_tail, log_p) < p; 
    PD> 	ux *= 2);
    PD> 49   for (lx = ux;  pnchisq(lx, n, lambda, lower_tail, log_p) > p;
    PD> 	lx *= 0.5);

    PD> but if we look at the opposite tail, we also need to reverse that
    PD> logic since pnchisq(x,...) is now decreasing in x. Otherwise the
    PD> algorithm will get stuck in one of the for loops.

Now fixed for R-devel (to become 1.3.0), together with the "FIXME" comment
a few lines above.

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