Update Normal quantile function with new approximations
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Description
Description
The R project recently published a vignette covering various approximations for the quantiles of the normal distribution, including for log inputs: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=DPQ/vignettes/qnorm-asymp.pdf
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the R DPQ qnorm-asymp vignette linked in the issue, including its discussion of log-input approximations. No implementation file or test is named, so locate the normal quantile function and its existing tests; done means the new approximations, including log inputs, are covered.
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Assessment
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100