1 .\" Man page contributed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
2 .\" and released under the GNU General Public License
3 .TH GSL-RANDIST 1 "" GNU
5 gsl-randist - generate random samples from various distributions
7 .B gsl-randist seed n DIST param1 param2 [..]
10 is a demonstration program for the GNU Scientific Library.
11 It generates n random samples from the distribution DIST using the distribution
12 parameters param1, param2, ...
14 Here is an example. We generate 10000 random samples from a Cauchy
15 distribution with a width of 30 and histogram them over the range -100 to
18 gsl-randist 0 10000 cauchy 30 | gsl-histogram -100 100 200 > histogram.dat
20 A plot of the resulting histogram will show the familiar shape of the
21 Cauchy distribution with fluctuations caused by the finite sample
24 awk '{print $1, $3 ; print $2, $3}' histogram.dat | graph -T X
28 .BR gsl-histogram(1) .
32 was written by James Theiler and Brian Gough.
33 Copyright 1996-2000; for copying conditions see the GNU General
36 This manual page was added by the Dirk Eddelbuettel
37 <edd@debian.org>, the Debian GNU/Linux maintainer for