haskell / haskell/statistics

Poor precision in BinomialDistribution for probability & logProbablilty

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Description

A [recent built on the nixos build server hydra](https://hydra.nixos.org/build/122996414/nixlog/1) failed with this error for `statistics-0.15.2.0`:

```
Tests for: BinomialDistribution
<...>
log probabilty check: FAIL
*** Failed! Falsified (after 34 tests):
binomial 79 9.83897381493678e-2
7
probability = 0.14935400356648396
logProbability = -1.9014359280741342
log p = -1.9014359280741266
eps = 3.970429114115656e-15
Use --quickcheck-replay=39638 to reproduce.
```

My best guess is, that this is not indicative of a bug in the library. Maybe the eps is to small?
I don‘t assume that this is the result of linking against a wrong library version or something, i.e. a issue in nixpkgs. But please enlighten me.

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