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Re: Inverse of Error Function

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  • Subject: [mg5278] Re: [mg5258] Inverse of Error Function
  • From: BobHanlon at aol.com
  • Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 02:30:26 -0500
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Use the standard package "Statistics`InverseStatisticalFunctions`"


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Subj:  [mg5258] Inverse of Error Function
From:  gus at crimson.up.ac.za
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X-From: gus at crimson.up.ac.za (Gustav Louw)
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I'm trying to find the inverse of the Error function in MMA.

I tried using InverseFunction, like this...

 InverseFunction[Erf[z]]

              (-1)
Out[1]= Erf[z]

But when I tried to find some numerical values i got this ...

In[2]:= % /. z->1 //N

                (-1)
Out[2]= 0.842701



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