[Rd] broken link in docs for Binormial functions

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Sat Aug 10 20:43:57 CEST 2013


On Aug 10, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On 10/08/2013 14:48, Sean O'Riordain wrote:
>> On the local documentation page for Binomial, i.e.
>> http://127.0.0.1:xxxx/library/stats/html/Binomial.html
>> 
>> The link to Catherine Loader's paper
>> "Catherine Loader (2000). *Fast and Accurate Computation of Binomial
>> Probabilities*; available from
>> http://www.herine.net/stat/software/dbinom.html."
>> 
>> appears to be broken.
> 
> And what should it be replaced by?  (We've fixed this up at least once before.)

A copy can be had at:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fprojects.scipy.org%2Fscipy%2Fraw-attachment%2Fticket%2F620%2Floader2000Fast.pdf&ei=Q4cGUpuGA8qWyAHN6ICgAQ&usg=AFQjCNG2mDFe3iE0Xahyl0d6f2cazTKgFQ&sig2=Ghc7H91rILXLrBLlJjQTJA

Ugggh. Does anyone else hate the Google encoding that was adopted a couple of years ago?

http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/raw-attachment/ticket/620/loader2000Fast.pdf‎


> 
> As Berners-Lee says, URIs should be permanent ....
> 
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Seán
>> 
>> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>> 
>> 

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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA



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