jpayne@68: .\" Man page contributed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
jpayne@68: .\" and released under the GNU General Public License
jpayne@68: .TH GSL-RANDIST 1 "" GNU
jpayne@68: .SH NAME
jpayne@68: gsl-randist - generate random samples from various distributions
jpayne@68: .SH SYNOPSYS
jpayne@68: .B gsl-randist seed n DIST param1 param2 [..]
jpayne@68: .SH DESCRIPTION
jpayne@68: .B gsl-randist 
jpayne@68: is a demonstration program for the GNU Scientific Library.
jpayne@68: It generates n random samples from the distribution DIST using the distribution
jpayne@68: parameters param1, param2, ...
jpayne@68: .SH EXAMPLE
jpayne@68: Here is an example.  We generate 10000 random samples from a Cauchy
jpayne@68: distribution with a width of 30 and histogram them over the range -100 to
jpayne@68: 100, using 200 bins.
jpayne@68:  
jpayne@68:      gsl-randist 0 10000 cauchy 30 | gsl-histogram -100 100 200 > histogram.dat
jpayne@68:  
jpayne@68: A plot of the resulting histogram will show the familiar shape of the
jpayne@68: Cauchy distribution with fluctuations caused by the finite sample
jpayne@68: size.
jpayne@68: 
jpayne@68:      awk '{print $1, $3 ; print $2, $3}' histogram.dat | graph -T X
jpayne@68: 
jpayne@68: .SH SEE ALSO
jpayne@68: .BR gsl(3) ,
jpayne@68: .BR gsl-histogram(1) .
jpayne@68: 
jpayne@68: .SH AUTHOR
jpayne@68: .B gsl-randist 
jpayne@68: was written by James Theiler and Brian Gough.
jpayne@68: Copyright 1996-2000; for copying conditions see the GNU General
jpayne@68: Public Licence. 
jpayne@68: 
jpayne@68: This manual page was added by the Dirk Eddelbuettel
jpayne@68: <edd@debian.org>, the Debian GNU/Linux maintainer for
jpayne@68: .BR GSL .