Gaussian Quadrature Formulae for Arbitrary Positive Measures
Andrew D. Fernandes1,2 and William R. Atchley1,2,3
1Graduate Program in Biomathematics. 2Center for Computational Biology. 3Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7614.
Abstract: We present computational methods and subroutines to compute Gaussian quadrature integration formulas for arbitrary positive measures. For expensive integrands that can be factored into well-known forms, Gaussian quadrature schemes allow for efficient evaluation of high-accuracy and -precision numerical integrals, especially compared to general ad hoc schemes. In addition, for certain well-known density measures (the normal, gamma, log-normal, Student’s t, inversegamma, beta, and Fisher’s F) we present exact formulae for computing the respective quadrature scheme.
Availability: Source code is freely available online as a C-linkable ISO C++ library under a BSD-style license from http://www.fernandes.org/gaussqr. The library may be built using single, double, or extended precision arithmetic.
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