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Guide for development and peer-review of statistical software
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Appendix or chapter on R Statistics Quirks #57

Open mpadge opened 2 years ago

mpadge commented 2 years ago

Following on from this tweet thread by @helske:

A periodic reminder that while dgamma in R uses shape-rate parameterization by default, the internal C function dgamma uses shape-scale parameterization.

This book would be a good place to curate a list of these kinds of idiosyncrasies of the stats package. They can be initially documented in this issue.