Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)

FreeBSD Manual Pages

  
 
  

home | help
GSL-RANDIST(1)		     General Commands Manual		  GSL-RANDIST(1)

NAME
     gsl-randist - generate random samples from various distributions

SYNOPSYS
     gsl-randist seed n DIST param1 param2 [..]

DESCRIPTION
     gsl-randist  is a demonstration program for the GNU Scientific Library.  It
     generates n random samples from the distribution DIST using  the  distribu-
     tion parameters param1, param2, ...

EXAMPLE
     Here is an example.  We generate 10000 random samples from a Cauchy distri-
     bution  with  a  width of 30 and histogram them over the range -100 to 100,
     using 200 bins.

	  gsl-randist 0 10000 cauchy 30 | gsl-histogram  -100  100  200  >  his-
     togram.dat

     A	plot  of  the  resulting  histogram  will show the familiar shape of the
     Cauchy distribution with fluctuations caused by the finite sample size.

	  awk '{print $1, $3 ; print $2, $3}' histogram.dat | graph -T X

SEE ALSO
     gsl(3), gsl-histogram(1).

AUTHOR
     gsl-randist was written  by  James  Theiler  and  Brian  Gough.   Copyright
     1996-2000; for copying conditions see the GNU General Public Licence.

     This  manual  page was added by the Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>, the
     Debian GNU/Linux maintainer for GSL.

GNU								  GSL-RANDIST(1)

Want to link to this manual page? Use this URL:
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gsl-randist&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+Ports+15.1.quarterly>

home | help