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  1. Overview
  2. Usage
  3. References
  4. URLs
  5. Author
  6. Copyright

randomext

The library extends class Random in the Ruby standard library.

Overview

The Random class in the Ruby standard library supports only random sampling from discrete/continuous uniform distribution.

This library provides random sampling methods from many kinds of probability distributions such as:

Usage

To use this library, you need to install randomext gem:

gem install randomext

And write

require 'randomext'

in your ruby script, then you can use some additional methods in Random class.

References

Almost all algorithms are based on: 四辻哲章, “計算機シミュレーションのための確率分布乱数生成法”, プレアデス出版 (2010)

I examine numpy to select nice distributions.

URLs

Author

Ippei Obayashi ohai@kmc.gr.jp

Copyright (c) 2012, Ippei Obayashi All rights reserved.

The software is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License. Please see the LICENSE for more information.