On the Computation of Gauss Hypergeometric Functions

Saralees Nadarajah

The American Statistician, 2015, vol. 69, issue 2, 146-148

Abstract: The pioneering study undertaken by Liang et al. in 2008 ( Journal of the American Statistical Association , 103, 410-423) and the hundreds of papers citing that work make use of certain hypergeometric functions. Liang et al. and many others claim that the computation of the hypergeometric functions is difficult. Here, we show that the hypergeometric functions can in fact be reduced to simpler functions that can often be computed using a pocket calculator.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2015.1028595

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