[jira] [Resolved] (MATH-718) inverseCumulativeProbability of BinomialDistribution returns wrong value for large trials.

["Sébastien Brisard (Resolved JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sébastien Brisard resolved MATH-718.
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       Resolution: Later
    Fix Version/s: 4.0
                   3.1
         Assignee:     (was: Sébastien Brisard)

As rightly pointed out by Christian, this issue is strongly related to MATH-738.
                
> inverseCumulativeProbability of BinomialDistribution returns wrong value for large trials.
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>                 Key: MATH-718
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-718
>             Project: Commons Math
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.2, 3.0
>            Reporter: Yuji Uchiyama
>             Fix For: 3.1, 4.0
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> The inverseCumulativeProbability method of the BinomialDistributionImpl class returns wrong value for large trials.  Following code will be reproduce the problem.
> {{System.out.println(new BinomialDistributionImpl(1000000, 0.5).inverseCumulativeProbability(0.5));}}
> This returns 499525, though it should be 499999.
> I'm not sure how it should be fixed, but the cause is that the cumulativeProbability method returns Infinity, not NaN.  As the result the checkedCumulativeProbability method doesn't work as expected.

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