Title: Functions of Special Functions Supervisor: Thomas Yee Prerequisites: MATHs Stage 2, and STATS 380 or 782 The VGAM R package implements some special functions such as zeta() and makes use of special functions such as digamma() and trigamma(). This project is to add some more of the above. For example, estimating the Dirichlet-multinomial distribution requires improvements to some existing code. This project would suit somebody with skills in R programming and mathematics, especially numerical analysis.