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diff --git a/gsl-1.9/doc/gsl-randist.1 b/gsl-1.9/doc/gsl-randist.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a06169 --- /dev/null +++ b/gsl-1.9/doc/gsl-randist.1 @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +.\" Man page contributed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> +.\" and released under the GNU General Public License +.TH GSL-RANDIST 1 "" GNU +.SH NAME +gsl-randist - generate random samples from various distributions +.SH SYNOPSYS +.B gsl-randist seed n DIST param1 param2 [..] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B gsl-randist +is a demonstration program for the GNU Scientific Library. +It generates n random samples from the distribution DIST using the distribution +parameters param1, param2, ... +.SH EXAMPLE +Here is an example. We generate 10000 random samples from a Cauchy +distribution 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 > histogram.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 + +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR gsl(3) , +.BR gsl-histogram(1) . + +.SH AUTHOR +.B 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 +.BR GSL . |