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Question: Inverse CDF computations failing or returning complex values

Question:Inverse CDF computations failing or returning complex values

jm64 5 Maple 15
statistics quantile normal
December 05 2011
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with(Statistics):
Phiinverse := (x) -> Quantile(Normal(0, 1), x) :

evalf(Phiinverse(1-1/2^24));

and the result is 5.691523310-2.147372008*I

Now, I can get a real-valued solution to this by using the equivalent
functionality from stats instead of Statistics.

with(stats):
PhiinvClassic:= (x) -> statevalf[icdf, normald[0, 1]](x):

evalf(PhiinvClassic(1-1/2^24));
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