Evaluating the Normal Distribution

This article provides a little table-free C function that evaluates the normal distribution with absolute error less than 8 x 10 -16 . A small extension provides relative error near the limit available in double precision: 14 to 16 digits, the limits determined mainly by the computer's ability...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: George Marsaglia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2004-07-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/1409