Re: [boost] [math distributions] where to check for validity of distribution variables?

Thijs van den Berg wrote:

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I we have the following code that constructs a faulty distribution and uses that in follow-up steps, what would be wanted behavior regarding error handling?

1: normal N(0,0); // a normal distribution with invalid std 2: double y = pdf(N, 0.3); 3: double k = kurtosis(N);

IMO, we should probably follow this one (but might not where the result is the same constant for all parameter values). However, as noted previously an error might not trigger an exception: we might be required to return a specific error value instead. John.