NAME

       gbrand - Sampling from random distributions

SYNOPSIS

       gbrand [options] NAME PARAMETERS...

DESCRIPTION

       Generates  a  grid of i.i.d. samples from a distribution. The name of the distribution and
       its parameters are specified on the command line.  the column index. Indeces start from 1.
       If  more  than one function are provided they are printed one after the other. The type of
       random number generator and the default seed can be set  with  the  environment  variables
       GSL_RNG_TYPE and GSL_RNG_SEED, respectively, as documented in GSL manual.

       Valid  distributions  are:  beta,  binomial,  bivariate-gaussian,  cauchy,  chisq, dir-2d,
       dir-3d, dir-nd, erlang, exponential, exppow, fdist, flat, gamma, gaussian-tail,  gaussian,
       geometric,   gumbel1,   gumbel2,   hypergeometric,   laplace,   landau,  levy,  levy-skew,
       logarithmic,logistic, lognormal, negative-binomial,pareto, pascal, poisson, rayleigh-tail,
       rayleigh,tdist,ugaussian-tail, ugaussian, weibull,paret03.

OPTIONS

       -r     specify number of rows (default 1)

       -c     specify number of columns (default 1)

       -R     set the seed (default 1)

       -v     verbose mode

       -h     this help

AUTHOR

       Written by Giulio Bottazzi

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <gbutils@googlegroups.com>

       Package home page <http://cafim.sssup.it/~giulio/software/gbutils/index.html>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright  © 2001-2015 Giulio Bottazzi This program is free software; you can redistribute
       it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU  General  Public  License  (version  2)  as
       published by the Free Software Foundation;

       This  program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
       without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  PURPOSE.
       See the GNU General Public License for more details.