Paul A Bristow wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Neal Becker Sent: 14 May 2007 16:34 To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: [boost] binomial distribution - not documented?

It looks like binomial_distribution is missing documentation: http://boost.org/libs/random/random-distributions.html

Indeed, for the random library, but

The recently accepted, but not released, math toolkit library does document the distribution in the Boost sandbox.

Boost-sandbox/math_toolkit/libs/math/doc/html/math_toolkit/dist/dist_ref/dists/binomial_dist.html

The complete documentation starts at:

Boost-sandbox\math_toolkit\libs\math\doc\html

Thanks - but I'm looking for a random generator. I don't see this in the math_toolkit - am I missing something? I do realize that inverse cumulative could be used, which I think math_toolkit provides, but that's not always a good choice. BTW, the binomial_distribution provided by boost::random is pretty crude.

Neal Becker wrote:

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The complete documentation starts at:

Boost-sandbox\math_toolkit\libs\math\doc\html

Thanks - but I'm looking for a random generator. I don't see this in the math_toolkit - am I missing something?

I do realize that inverse cumulative could be used, which I think math_toolkit provides, but that's not always a good choice.

Correct, in general the random number library is a much better bet for, um, random numbers.

BTW, the binomial_distribution provided by boost::random is pretty crude.

Unfortunately the library as a whole has a number of outstanding issues that need fixing... there was talk of a replacement at one point (for TR2) but I don't know how that's progressing. John.