ASA103
The Digamma or Psi Function


ASA103 is a C++ library which evaluates the digamma or psi function, by Jose Bernardo.

ASA103 is Applied Statistics Algorithm 103. Source code for many Applied Statistics Algorithms is available through STATLIB.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

ASA103 is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

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Author:

Original FORTRAN77 version by Jose Bernardo; C++ version by John Burkardt.

Reference:

  1. Jose Bernardo,
    Algorithm AS 103: Psi ( Digamma ) Function,
    Applied Statistics,
    Volume 25, Number 3, 1976, pages 315-317.

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Last revised on 18 January 2008.