Am 27.07.2024 um 14:55 schrieb Cottrell, Allin:
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 7:01 AM Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
<p002...@staff.univpm.it> wrote:
While browsing lib/src/random.c, I noticed that we've had the "dir"
parameter to mrandgen for a LOOOOOOOOONG time (if my reconstruction is
correct, since 2022a). For example

<hansl>
matrix D = mrandgen("dir", {0.4, 1.2, 0.8}, 16)
</hansl>

It would seem that we forgot to document our ability to draw from a
Dirichlet distribution; the Changelog is silent on this too.

I can't find any email exchange on this subject. Does anyone remember if
this was a conscious choice (maybe, insufficient testing), or did we
just forget?
I found the following message that I sent on Dec 16, 2021, which kinda
suggests that it wasn't sufficiently tested:

<quote>
I've added Dirichlet ("dir") to the options for mrandgen(), but I'm
not sure I've got this right; comments are welcome.

So maybe add a comment to the source there?

-s
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