Recent software developments for special functions in the Santander–Amsterdam project》.pdf

Science of Computer Programming 90 (2014) 42–54 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Science of Computer Programming /locate/scico Recent software developments for special functions in the Santander–Amsterdam project Amparo Gil a , Javier Segura b,∗, Nico M. Temme c a Departamento de Matemática Aplicada y Ciencias de la Computación, ETSI Caminos, Universidad de Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Spain b Departamento de Matemáticas, Estadística y Computación, Univ. de Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Spain c IAA, 1391 VD 18, Abcoude, The Netherlands 1 a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We give an overview of published algorithms by our group and of current activities and Received 19 October 2012 future plans. In particular, we give details on methods for computing special functions and Received in revised form 1 October 2013 discuss in detail two current lines of research. Firstly, we describe the recent developments Accepted 8 November 2013 for the computation of central and non-central χ -square cumulative distributions (also Available online 12 November 2013 called Marcum Q -functions), and we present a new quadrature method for computing Keywords: them. Secondly, we describe the fourth-order methods for computing zeros of special Special functions functions recently developed, and we provide an explicit example for