Re: [boost] Random Number Generators

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-01 12:35:29

>-----Original Message-----
>From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
>[mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Andrew Sutton
>Sent: 30 November 2007 15:03
>To: boost-dev
>Subject: [boost] 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.

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

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