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Functions and CALL Routines

LCOMB Function



Computes the logarithm of the COMB function, which is the logarithm of the number of combinations of n objects taken r at a time.
Category: Combinatorial

Syntax
Arguments
Comparisons
Examples
See Also

Syntax

LCOMB(n,r)


Arguments

n

is a non-negative integer that represents the total number of elements from which the sample is chosen.

r

is a non-negative integer that represents the number of chosen elements.

Restriction: r [le] n

Comparisons

The LCOMB function computes the logarithm of the COMB function.


Examples

The following statements produce these results:

SAS Statements Results
x=lcomb(5000,500);

put x;


1621.4411361

y=lcomb(100,10);

put y;


30.482323362


See Also

Functions:

COMB Function

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