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 distribution parameters param1, param2, ...

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

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.