Title: q-type functions

Supervisor: Thomas Yee

Prerequisites: STATS 310, numerical computing skills and
               good R programming skills

Abstract: The VGAM R package estimates many distributions by
full maximum likelihood estimation (see the R CRAN task views
for distributions). Associated with these distributions are
d-, p-, q-, and r-type functions, e.g., dunif(), punif(),
qunif(), runif().  The aim of this project is to write
many q-type functions that are currently unimplemented.
Special attentions is needed to make the computations
fast and reliable, without excessive memory requirements.
This project would be of interest to those with a numerical
analysis background and strong R programming skills.