From: Roland Mai <roland.mai@...>
Date: 2007-05-23T09:49:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Uniform Random Number Generator

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You guys are great. Thanks a lot.

On 5/22/07, Axel Etzold <AEtzold@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> You can use uniform random numbers generated from the GNU Scientific
> library, via ruby-gsl,
>
> http://rb-gsl.rubyforge.org/,
>
> see : http://rb-gsl.rubyforge.org/rng.html,
>
> if you should want random numbers that follow some other distribution,
> you can always pick a random number in the interval [0,1] and then
> numerically find the position at which the cumulative distribution
> reaches this value. Do this many times .. this gives you a distribution
> of points according to the distribution you're looking for.
> You don't have to program it all by yourself, but you can use
> the statistics2 package by Shin-ichiro Hara: see the readme here:
>
>
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/~sinara/ruby/math/statistics2/statistics2-0.=
50/README
>
> Best regards,
>
> Axel
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