John Maddock <john <at> johnmaddock.co.uk> writes:
Um, argument to the quantile function surely?
Oops, yes, the quantile function. I eventually found what I was looking for in some code written by Joaquín M López Muñoz. For the sake of closure, here is an example: //Generate a Poisson-distributed random variate given a //specific mean value): #include <boost/random.hpp> #include <boost/random/poisson_distribution.hpp> #include <boost/random/variate_generator.hpp> #include <boost/random/mersenne_twister.hpp> #include <boost/random/uniform_int.hpp> #include <boost/random/uniform_smallint.hpp> #include <iostream> using namespace std; using namespace boost::random; int main() { double lambda(10); //mean of Poisson distr boost::mt19937 rnd_gen; //Mersenne Twister generator typedef boost::variate_generator< boost::mt19937, boost::poisson_distribution<> > rnd_poisson_t; rnd_poisson_t rnd_poisson( rnd_gen, boost::poisson_distribution<>( lambda )); rnd_poisson = rnd_poisson_t( rnd_gen, boost::poisson_distribution<>( lambda )); cout << "\nFive Poisson-distributed random numbers\n"; for(int i = 0; i < 5; i++) { cout << rnd_poisson() << endl; } return 0; }