how to calculate this natural logarithm
On 07-Jan-11 16:20:59, zhaoxing731 wrote:
Hello I want to calculate natural logarithm of sum of combinations as follow: (R code)
{com_sum=choose(2000000,482)*choose(1000000,118)+
choose(2000000,483)*choose(1000000,117)+...+
choose(2000000,i)*choose(1000000,600-i)+...+
choose(2000000,600)*choose(1000000,0) #calculate the sum
result=log(com_sum) #calculate the log of the sum
}
But every element of the com_sum is Inf, so I can't get the result. Thank you in advance Yours sincerely ZhaoXing
You may find you can usefully adapt the technique I have described in: http://www.zen89632.zen.co.uk/R/FisherTest/extreme_fisher.pdf A somewhat different but closely related problem. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.harding at wlandres.net> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 07-Jan-11 Time: 17:42:48 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------