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bug #47193: gsl_ran_poisson_pdf with mu=0

Submitter:  Patrick Alken <psa>
Submitted:  Thu 18 Feb 2016 04:39:48 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
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Thu 09 Nov 2017 07:03:22 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Same bug report as bug #43326.

Timothee Flutre <tflutre>
Thu 18 Feb 2016 04:39:48 PM UTC, original submission:  

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Hi,

I noticed that gsl_ran_poisson_pdf(k, mu) error out if mu=0.0. IMHO a Poisson distribution with zero mean is a perfectly valid distribition (although it is not very random), so I find it unexpected that the function doesn't support it. I suggest to add some code taking care of the special case. Something like:

if (!mu) {
  if (k)
    return 0.0
  return 1.0
}

Patrick Alken <psa>
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