Computation of the polygamma functions
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
- Vol. 13 (3) , 409-415
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918408812385
Abstract
An algorithm is presented for computing the psi(digamma) and other polygamma functions.Keywords
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