Math::Random 0.71

Math::Random is a Perl port of the C version of randlib, which is a suite of routines for generating random deviates. See "RANDLIB" for more information.

Math::Random supports all of the distributions from which the Fortran and C versions generate deviates. The major functionalities that are excluded are the multiple generators/splitting facility and antithetic random number generation. These facilities, along with some of the distributions which are included, are probably not of interest except to the very sophisticated user. If there is sufficient interest, the excluded facilities will be included in a future release. The code to perform the excluded facilities is available as randlib in Fortran and C source.

SYNOPSIS

 * use Math::Random;

 Exports the following routines by default (see "Default Routines"):

 random_set_seed_from_phrase
 random_get_seed
 random_seed_from_phrase
 random_set_seed
 random_uniform
 random_uniform_integer
 random_permutation
 random_permuted_index
 random_normal

 In this case the extended routines (see "Extended Routines") can be used by qualifying them explicitly with Math::Random::, for example: $stdexp = Math::Random::random_exponential();

* use Math::Random qw(random_beta
 random_chi_square
 random_exponential
 random_f
 random_gamma
 random_multivariate_normal
 random_multinomial
 random_noncentral_chi_square
 random_noncentral_f
 random_normal
 random_permutation
 random_permuted_index
 random_uniform
 random_poisson
 random_uniform_integer
 random_negative_binomial
 random_binomial
 random_seed_from_phrase
 random_get_seed
 random_set_seed_from_phrase
 random_set_seed );

 Exports all the routines explicitly. Use a subset of the list for the routines you want.

 * use Math::Random qw(:all);

 Exports all the routines, as well.


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· Perl