Bessel integral

September 28, 2011
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(This article was first published on Xi'an's Og » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

Pierre Pudlo and I worked this morning on a distribution related to philogenic trees and got stuck on the following Bessel integral

$\int_a^\infty e^{-bt}\,I_n(t)\,\text{d}t\qquad a,b>0$

where In is the modified Bessel function of the first kind. We could not find better than formula 6.611(4) in Gradshteyn and Ryzhik. which is for a=0… Anyone in for a closed form formula, even involving special functions?

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