/* * AUTHOR * Catherine Loader, catherine@research.bell-labs.com. * October 23, 2000. * * Merge in to R: * Copyright (C) 2000, The R Core Team * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, a copy is available at * https://www.R-project.org/Licenses/ * * * DESCRIPTION * * Computes the log of the error term in Stirling's formula. * For n > 15, uses the series 1/12n - 1/360n^3 + ... * For n <=15, integers or half-integers, uses stored values. * For other n < 15, uses lgamma directly (don't use this to * write lgamma!) * * Merge in to R: * Copyright (C) 2000, The R Core Team * R has lgammafn, and lgamma is not part of ISO C */ #include "nmath.h" /* stirlerr(n) = log(n!) - log( sqrt(2*pi*n)*(n/e)^n ) * = log Gamma(n+1) - 1/2 * [log(2*pi) + log(n)] - n*[log(n) - 1] * = log Gamma(n+1) - (n + 1/2) * log(n) + n - log(2*pi)/2 * * see also lgammacor() in ./lgammacor.c which computes almost the same! */ double attribute_hidden stirlerr(double n) { #define S0 0.083333333333333333333 /* 1/12 */ #define S1 0.00277777777777777777778 /* 1/360 */ #define S2 0.00079365079365079365079365 /* 1/1260 */ #define S3 0.000595238095238095238095238 /* 1/1680 */ #define S4 0.0008417508417508417508417508/* 1/1188 */ /* error for 0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, ..., 14.5, 15.0. */ const static double sferr_halves[31] = { 0.0, /* n=0 - wrong, place holder only */ 0.1534264097200273452913848, /* 0.5 */ 0.0810614667953272582196702, /* 1.0 */ 0.0548141210519176538961390, /* 1.5 */ 0.0413406959554092940938221, /* 2.0 */ 0.03316287351993628748511048, /* 2.5 */ 0.02767792568499833914878929, /* 3.0 */ 0.02374616365629749597132920, /* 3.5 */ 0.02079067210376509311152277, /* 4.0 */ 0.01848845053267318523077934, /* 4.5 */ 0.01664469118982119216319487, /* 5.0 */ 0.01513497322191737887351255, /* 5.5 */ 0.01387612882307074799874573, /* 6.0 */ 0.01281046524292022692424986, /* 6.5 */ 0.01189670994589177009505572, /* 7.0 */ 0.01110455975820691732662991, /* 7.5 */ 0.010411265261972096497478567, /* 8.0 */ 0.009799416126158803298389475, /* 8.5 */ 0.009255462182712732917728637, /* 9.0 */ 0.008768700134139385462952823, /* 9.5 */ 0.008330563433362871256469318, /* 10.0 */ 0.007934114564314020547248100, /* 10.5 */ 0.007573675487951840794972024, /* 11.0 */ 0.007244554301320383179543912, /* 11.5 */ 0.006942840107209529865664152, /* 12.0 */ 0.006665247032707682442354394, /* 12.5 */ 0.006408994188004207068439631, /* 13.0 */ 0.006171712263039457647532867, /* 13.5 */ 0.005951370112758847735624416, /* 14.0 */ 0.005746216513010115682023589, /* 14.5 */ 0.005554733551962801371038690 /* 15.0 */ }; double nn; if (n <= 15.0) { nn = n + n; if (nn == (int)nn) return(sferr_halves[(int)nn]); return(lgammafn(n + 1.) - (n + 0.5)*log(n) + n - M_LN_SQRT_2PI); } nn = n*n; if (n>500) return((S0-S1/nn)/n); if (n> 80) return((S0-(S1-S2/nn)/nn)/n); if (n> 35) return((S0-(S1-(S2-S3/nn)/nn)/nn)/n); /* 15 < n <= 35 : */ return((S0-(S1-(S2-(S3-S4/nn)/nn)/nn)/nn)/n); }