Aloha,

I could really use some help. I have the fun task of converting Splus code to Perl. All has worked beautifully so far the majority of the project. But I am stuck now. I am trying to find out if Perl has a library module for the cumulative probability for the Hypergeometric discrete distribution. Even if such a thing does not exist, perhaps someone has already invented this wheel?

In Splus, the bit of code is: phyper(q, m, n, k)

where:

q: the number of red balls out of a sample of size k drawn from an urn containing m red balls and n black ones.

m: number of red balls in the urn.

n: number of black balls in the urn.

k: number of balls drawn from an urn with m red and n black balls.

I have been searching the web with no luck!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Aloha,
Annette

In reply to Hypergeometric Distribution by Anonymous Monk

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