On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Awhan Patnaik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> GSL allows random number generation between the unit interval [0,1]. > However > if one has to generate numbers between ANY two real numbers a and b then > one > way is the following: > num = a + rand*(b-a) where rand is a random number in the unit interval. > Is > this the only way available ? I mean are the statistical properties > preserved in such cases. > It is totally preserved. If X ~ Uniform(0,1), then Y = a + (b-a)X ~ Uniform(a,b) _______________________________________________ Help-gsl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl
