Re: [Boost-docs] INdexing

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] INdexing
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-21 08:28:59

Andrew Sutton wrote:
>> John and I are still busy on the Math Toolkit docs.
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> This is a little off-topic... at least with regards to boost docs,
> but not with the Math toolkit (and probably Boost.Random). For some
> reason, I found myself searching for an algorithm for generating
> random numbers from a parameterized skew-normal distribution. Not
> immediately finding anything, I game my students an extra credit
> problem of doing it for me - with the caveat that their solution
> could be integrated into both Boost.Random and the Math toolkit. It's
> worth a lot of extra credit for a bunch of students learning C++ :)
>
> You wouldn't happen to have any references for any such algorithms,
> would you?

No: that's not a distribution I'm familiar with, and in any case the 
math-toolkit doesn't do random numbers - thankfully ! ;-)

There seem to be a lot of references here though: 
http://azzalini.stat.unipd.it/SN/

HTH, John.