log_sum_exp {Melissa} | R Documentation

## Compute stable log-sum-exp

### Description

`log_sum_exp` computes the log sum exp trick for avoiding numeric underflow and have numeric stability in computations of small numbers.

### Usage

    log_sum_exp(x)

### Arguments

`x` | A vector of observations

### Value

The logs-sum-exp value

### Author(s)

C.A.Kapourani C.A.Kapourani@ed.ac.uk

### References

https://hips.seas.harvard.edu/blog/2013/01/09/computing-log-sum-exp/

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