libstable swMATH ID: 20735 Software Authors: Javier Royuela-del-Val, Federico Simmross-Wattenberg, Carlos Alberola-López Description: libstable: Fast, Parallel, and High-Precision Computation of α-Stable Distributions in R, C/C++, and MATLAB. α-stable distributions are a family of well-known probability distributions. However, the lack of closed analytical expressions hinders their application. Currently, several tools have been developed to numerically evaluate their density and distribution functions or to estimate their parameters, but available solutions either do not reach sufficient precision on their evaluations or are excessively slow for practical purposes. Moreover, they do not take full advantage of the parallel processing capabilities of current multi-core machines. Other solutions work only on a subset of the α-stable parameter space. In this paper we present an R package and a C/C++ library with a MATLAB front-end that permit parallelized, fast and high precision evaluation of density, distribution and quantile functions, as well as random variable generation and parameter estimation of α-stable distributions in their whole parameter space. The described library can be easily integrated into third party developments. Homepage: https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v078i01 Keywords: alpha-stable distributions; numerical calculation; parallel processing; Journal of Statistical Software; R package; www.jstatsoft.org; R Related Software: STABLE; LSD; GSL; stabledist; libstableR; R; Matlab; BRENT; OpenCL; CUDA; CRAN Cited in: 2 Publications Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software Year all top 5 Cited by 8 Authors 1 de Pedro, Luis 1 González, Iván 1 Julián-Moreno, Guillermo 1 Kakinaka, Shinji 1 López de Vergara, Jorge E. 1 Royuela-del-Val, Javier 1 Simmross-Wattenberg, Federico 1 Umeno, Ken Cited in 2 Serials 1 Chaos 1 Statistics and Computing Cited in 2 Fields 2 Probability theory and stochastic processes (60-XX) 2 Statistics (62-XX) Citations by Year