mwc-random-0.13.3.0: Fast, high quality pseudo random number generation

Copyright(c) 2012 Bryan O'Sullivan
LicenseBSD3
Maintainerbos@serpentine.com
Stabilityexperimental
Portabilityportable
Safe HaskellNone
LanguageHaskell98

System.Random.MWC.Distributions

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Description

Pseudo-random number generation for non-uniform distributions.

Synopsis

Variates: non-uniformly distributed values

Continuous distributions

normal Source

Arguments

:: PrimMonad m 
=> Double

Mean

-> Double

Standard deviation

-> Gen (PrimState m) 
-> m Double 

Generate a normally distributed random variate with given mean and standard deviation.

standard :: PrimMonad m => Gen (PrimState m) -> m Double Source

Generate a normally distributed random variate with zero mean and unit variance.

The implementation uses Doornik's modified ziggurat algorithm. Compared to the ziggurat algorithm usually used, this is slower, but generates more independent variates that pass stringent tests of randomness.

exponential Source

Arguments

:: PrimMonad m 
=> Double

Scale parameter

-> Gen (PrimState m)

Generator

-> m Double 

Generate an exponentially distributed random variate.

truncatedExp Source

Arguments

:: PrimMonad m 
=> Double

Scale parameter

-> (Double, Double)

Range to which distribution is truncated. Values may be negative.

-> Gen (PrimState m)

Generator.

-> m Double 

Generate truncated exponentially distributed random variate.

gamma Source

Arguments

:: PrimMonad m 
=> Double

Shape parameter

-> Double

Scale parameter

-> Gen (PrimState m)

Generator

-> m Double 

Random variate generator for gamma distribution.

chiSquare Source

Arguments

:: PrimMonad m 
=> Int

Number of degrees of freedom

-> Gen (PrimState m)

Generator

-> m Double 

Random variate generator for the chi square distribution.

beta Source

Arguments

:: PrimMonad m 
=> Double

alpha (>0)

-> Double

beta (>0)

-> Gen (PrimState m)

Generator

-> m Double 

Random variate generator for Beta distribution

Discrete distribution

categorical Source

Arguments

:: (PrimMonad m, Vector v Double) 
=> v Double

List of weights [>0]

-> Gen (PrimState m)

Generator

-> m Int 

Random variate generator for categorical distribution.

Note that if you need to generate a lot of variates functions System.Random.MWC.CondensedTable will offer better performance. If only few is needed this function will faster since it avoids costs of setting up table.

geometric0 Source

Arguments

:: PrimMonad m 
=> Double

p success probability lies in (0,1]

-> Gen (PrimState m)

Generator

-> m Int 

Random variate generator for the geometric distribution, computing the number of failures before success. Distribution's support is [0..].

geometric1 Source

Arguments

:: PrimMonad m 
=> Double

p success probability lies in (0,1]

-> Gen (PrimState m)

Generator

-> m Int 

Random variate generator for geometric distribution for number of trials. Distribution's support is [1..] (i.e. just geometric0 shifted by 1).

bernoulli Source

Arguments

:: PrimMonad m 
=> Double

Probability of success (returning True)

-> Gen (PrimState m)

Generator

-> m Bool 

Random variate generator for Bernoulli distribution

Multivariate

dirichlet Source

Arguments

:: (PrimMonad m, Traversable t) 
=> t Double

container of parameters

-> Gen (PrimState m)

Generator

-> m (t Double) 

Random variate generator for Dirichlet distribution

Permutations

uniformPermutation :: forall m v. (PrimMonad m, Vector v Int) => Int -> Gen (PrimState m) -> m (v Int) Source

Random variate generator for uniformly distributed permutations. It returns random permutation of vector [0 .. n-1].

This is the Fisher-Yates shuffle

uniformShuffle :: (PrimMonad m, Vector v a) => v a -> Gen (PrimState m) -> m (v a) Source

Random variate generator for a uniformly distributed shuffle (all shuffles are equiprobable) of a vector. It uses Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm.

uniformShuffleM :: (PrimMonad m, MVector v a) => v (PrimState m) a -> Gen (PrimState m) -> m () Source

In-place uniformly distributed shuffle (all shuffles are equiprobable)of a vector.

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