Everyone Thank you for helping me out. I appreciate it. Is there a way I can specify the range in which numbers are generated so that the numbers are not generated between -inf to +inf
On 5/5/09 8:43 PM, "Carl Boettiger" <[email protected]> wrote: > The number shouldn't be close to zero. Divide by 600 and you'll have > the mean, which will be close to zero. Just sum a bunch of gaussian > random numbers of standard deviation sigma and you expect a > displacement of sqrt(2 sigma T), i.e. sqrt(1200) approx 34 -- you're > simulating Brownian motion. > > -Carl > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Rodney Sparapani <[email protected]> wrote: >> Vibhuti Dave wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have attached the code that I am using to generate random numbers that >>> have a Gaussian distribution with a mean value of 0. >>> Ideally, if I generate these numbers and sum them up, the sum should be >>> very >>> close to 0 since it is a gaussian ditribution. I am using the function >>> gsl_ran_gaussian to generate them. However, the mean value seems to be way >>> off 0 when I run the program. >>> Any idea why that might be happening? >>> Thanks >>> Vibhuti >> >> What happens if you set mu = 0.? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Help-gsl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl >> > > ------------------------------------- Vibhuti Dave Enjoy Life to the Maximum ------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help-gsl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl
