Hello,
I think gsl_ran_poisson (const gsl_rng * r, double mu) returns the 'k'
number (i.e. then number of occurrences associated with that
probability generated by 'r'). This is an educated guess based on the
fact that p(k,lambda) and you is entering p() and lambda into the
above function.
You want to sample the poisson distribution in a given range of what?
Do you have a lambda and a k value? Or do you just have a lambda?
Cheers,
Dan/
On 17 Jun 2008, at 17:44, Mohammad Khaleghi wrote:
Hello Dan,
Thank you very much for the email and the explaination which is very
useful. I might have still some problems. It is maybe due to lack of
enough knowledge in statistics :-)
I saw that most of the functions return double. Do you mean all
these are distributed between (0, 1)? Then your solution is in these
case perfect. But what should I do in the cases where a long int is
returned?
I copied and pasted an example from the documents, where an unsined
int is generated. Almost the same goes for all uniform distributions.
Function: unsigned int gsl_ran_poisson (const gsl_rng * r, double
mu)
This function returns a random integer from the Poisson distribution
with mean mu. The probability distribution for Poisson variates is,
p(k) = {\mu^k \over k!} \exp(-\mu)
for k >= 0.
Does the above means that the function produces long int values
between (0, +inf)?
If so how can I produce (or get) say long ints between (100, 200)?
Does it make sense even thinking of something between (-100, 150)?
Thanks a lot
Mohd
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: "Daniel J Farrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gesendet: 17.06.08 18:01:50
An: Mohammad Khaleghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: [Help-gsl] Random numbers within some ranges in the
domain using different distributipons?
Hello Mohd,
I think you are looking for this function:
f(r) = a + (b - a) * r
where a is the min value, b is the max values and r is a random
number
distributed between 0 and 1 (e.g. use gsl_rng_uniform_pos() to
generate r).
This come up a lot on the mailing list maybe it should be added to
the
library?
Cheers,
Dan.
On 17 Jun 2008, at 16:26, Mohammad Khaleghi wrote:
Hi everybody!
Could somebody please tell me how to generate random numbers within
some ranges in the domain?
I saw the documentation and did not see anything like setting a min
and max. I mean for a distribution that has a domain (-inf, + inf)
could one set some range (min, max) to sample from? Or it is not
possible with gsl?
thans, Mohd
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