Boost C++ Libraries

...one of the most highly regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the world. Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu, C++ Coding Standards

This is the documentation for an old version of Boost. Click here to view this page for the latest version.
PrevUpHomeNext

Known Issues, and TODO List

Predominantly this is a TODO list, or a list of possible future enhancements. Items labled "High Priority" effect the proper functioning of the component, and should be fixed as soon as possible. Items labled "Medium Priority" are desirable enhancements, often pertaining to the performance of the component, but do not effect it's accuracy or functionality. Items labled "Low Priority" should probably be investigated at some point. Such classifications are obviously highly subjective.

If you don't see a component listed here, then we don't have any known issues with it.

Derivatives of Bessel functions (and their zeros)

Potentially, there could be native support for cyl_bessel_j_prime() and cyl_neumann_prime(). One could also imagine supporting the zeros thereof, but they might be slower to calculate since root bracketing might be needed instead of Newton iteration (for the lack of 2nd derivatives).

Since Boost.Math's Bessel functions are so excellent, the quick way to cyl_bessel_j_prime() and cyl_neumann_prime() would be via relationship with cyl_bessel_j() and cyl_neumann().

tgamma
Incomplete Beta
Inverse Gamma
Polynomials
Elliptic Integrals
Owen's T Function

There is a problem area at arbitrary precision when a is very close to 1. However, note that the value for T(h, 1) is well known and easy to compute, and if we replaced the ak terms in series T1, T2 or T4 by (ak - 1) then we would have the difference between T(h, a) and T(h, 1). Unfortunately this doesn't improve the convergence of those series in that area. It certainly looks as though a new series in terms of (1-a)k is both possible and desirable in this area, but it remains elusive at present.

Jocobi elliptic functions

These are useful in engineering applications - we have had a request to add these.

Statistical distributions
Feature Requests

The following table lists distributions that are found in other packages but which are not yet present here, the more frequently the distribution is found, the higher the priority for implementing it:

Distribution

R

Mathematica 6

NIST

Regress+

Matlab

Geometric

X

X

-

-

X

Multinomial

X

-

-

-

X

Tukey Lambda

X

-

X

-

-

Half Normal / Folded Normal

-

X

-

X

-

Chi

-

X

-

X

-

Gumbel

-

X

-

X

-

Discrete Uniform

-

X

-

-

X

Log Series

-

X

-

X

-

Nakagami (generalised Chi)

-

-

-

X

X

Log Logistic

-

-

-

-

X

Tukey (Studentized range)

X

-

-

-

-

Wilcoxon rank sum

X

-

-

-

-

Wincoxon signed rank

X

-

-

-

-

Non-central Beta

X

-

-

-

-

Maxwell

-

X

-

-

-

Beta-Binomial

-

X

-

-

-

Beta-negative Binomial

-

X

-

-

-

Zipf

-

X

-

-

-

Birnbaum-Saunders / Fatigue Life

-

-

X

-

-

Double Exponential

-

-

X

-

-

Power Normal

-

-

X

-

-

Power Lognormal

-

-

X

-

-

Cosine

-

-

-

X

-

Double Gamma

-

-

-

X

-

Double Weibul

-

-

-

X

-

Hyperbolic Secant

-

-

-

X

-

Semicircular

-

-

-

X

-

Bradford

-

-

-

X

-

Birr / Fisk

-

-

-

X

-

Reciprocal

-

-

-

X

-

Kolmogorov Distribution

-

-

-

-

-

Also asked for more than once:


PrevUpHomeNext