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/*
 *  AUTHOR
 *    Catherine Loader, catherine@research.bell-labs.com.
 *    October 23, 2000.
 *
 *  Merge in to R:
 *  Copyright (C) 2000, The R Core Development 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, write to the Free Software
 *  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307 USA.
 *
 *
 * DESCRIPTION
 *
 *    The t density is evaluated as
 *         sqrt(n/2) / ((n+1)/2) * Gamma((n+3)/2) / Gamma((n+2)/2).
 *             * (1+x^2/n)^(-n/2)
 *             / sqrt( 2 pi (1+x^2/n) )
 *    This form leads to a stable computation for all
 *    values of n, including n -> 0 and n -> infinity.
 *
 */

#include "nmath.h"
#include "dpq.h"

double dt(double x, double n, int give_log)
{ 
    double t, u;
#ifdef IEEE_754
    if (ISNAN(x) || ISNAN(n))
    return x + n;
#endif

    if (n <= 0) ML_ERR_return_NAN;
    if(!R_FINITE(x))
    return R_D__0;
    if(!R_FINITE(n))
    return dnorm(x, 0., 1., give_log);

    t = -bd0(n/2.,(n+1)/2.) + stirlerr((n+1)/2.) - stirlerr(n/2.);
    if ( x*x > 0.2*n )
    u = log( 1+ x*x/n ) * n/2;
    else
    u = -bd0(n/2.,(n+x*x)/2.) + x*x/2.;

    return R_D_fexp(M_2PI*(1+x*x/n), t-u);
}