Re: [boost] binomial distribution - not documented?

From: Neal Becker (ndbecker2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-15 07:12:50

Paul A Bristow wrote:

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>>[mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Neal Becker
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>>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.