gsl-randist - generate random samples from various distributions
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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
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
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.
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