Random Number Generators
All, Over the semester, I had a student spend some time working on a random number generator for a skew normal distribution - it's a normal distribution that leans to the left or right. Then, I got ambitious and decided to implement a random number generator for a Weibull distribution. I actually cleaned up the code and made them more or less Boost-ready (minus documentation and testing). If anybody is interested, You can download them from here http://www.cs.kent.edu/~asutton/random.zip. If there's interest, I can move them to the sandbox where there is some other work on the Boost.Random library. Andrew Sutton asutton@cs.kent.edu
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All,
Over the semester, I had a student spend some time working on a random number generator for a skew normal distribution - it's a normal distribution that leans to the left or right. Then, I got ambitious and decided to implement a random number generator for a Weibull distribution.
I actually cleaned up the code and made them more or less Boost-ready (minus documentation and testing). If anybody is interested, You can download them from here http://www.cs.kent.edu/~asutton/random.zip.
If there's interest, I can move them to the sandbox where there is some other work on the Boost.Random library.
I'm sure these would be usefully placed in the sandbox. If you have any spare student-power, the skew normal (and non-central F) distribution are missing from the math toolkit. John Maddock and I are suffering from 'distribution fatigue' ;-) Paul --- Paul A Bristow Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria UK LA8 8AB +44 1539561830 & SMS, Mobile +44 7714 330204 & SMS pbristow@hetp.u-net.com
I'm sure these would be usefully placed in the sandbox.
If you have any spare student-power, the skew normal (and non- central F) distribution are missing from the math toolkit. John Maddock and I are suffering from 'distribution fatigue' ;-)
I remember looking at that some time ago that, but not finding formulas for all of the functions, meaning that I'd have to try to do some math :) I'll see if I can't prod the guy that wrote the generator to write out some of the distribution. I'll let you know what happens with the Boost.Math distribution. I'll put those into the sandbox/random on Monday. Andrew Sutton asutton@cs.kent.edu
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