gsl-randist - generate random samples from various distributions
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GSL-RANDIST(1) General Commands Manual GSL-RANDIST(1) NAME gsl-randist - generate random samples from various distributions SYNOPSYS gsl-randist seed n DIST param1 param2 [..] DESCRIPTION gsl-randist is a demonstration program for the GNU Scientific Library. It generates n random samples from the distribution DIST using the dis- tribution parameters param1, param2, ... EXAMPLE Here is an example. We generate 10000 random samples from a Cauchy distribution with a width of 30 and histogram them over the range -100 to 100, using 200 bins. gsl-randist 0 10000 cauchy 30 | gsl-histogram -100 100 200 > his- togram.dat A plot of the resulting histogram will show the familiar shape of the Cauchy distribution with fluctuations caused by the finite sample size. awk '{print $1, $3 ; print $2, $3}' histogram.dat | graph -T X ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+-----------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+-----------------------+ |Availability | library/libgsl | +---------------+-----------------------+ |Stability | Pass-through volatile | +---------------+-----------------------+ SEE ALSO gsl(3), gsl-histogram(1). AUTHOR gsl-randist was written by James Theiler and Brian Gough. Copyright 1996-2000; for copying conditions see the GNU General Public Licence. This manual page was added by the Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>, the Debian GNU/Linux maintainer for GSL. NOTES This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-2.4.tar.gz Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl. GNU GSL-RANDIST(1)