trigammaInverse {limma}R Documentation

Inverse Trigamma Function

Description

The inverse of the trigamma function.

Usage

trigammaInverse(x)

Arguments

x numeric vector or array

Details

The function uses Newton's method with a clever starting value to ensure monotonic convergence.

Value

Numeric vector or array y satisfying trigamma(y)==x.

Note

This function does not accept a data.frame as argument although the internal function trigamma does.

Author(s)

Gordon Smyth

See Also

trigamma

Examples

y <- trigammaInverse(5)
trigamma(y)

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