--- On Thu, 5/2/09, Inna Becher wrote:
> I have to calculate probabilities for observations to be
> sampled. That's why I use exp with lnfactorial...
Looks like you want to calculate a likelihood function. Is that right?
If so, then you can use the fact that you almost always maximize the log likelihood, which will alow you to avoid taking the exp of lnfactorial.
-- Maarten
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