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NAME

6       gsl-randist - generate random samples from various distributions
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SYNOPSYS

9       gsl-randist seed n DIST param1 param2 [..]
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DESCRIPTION

12       gsl-randist  is a demonstration program for the GNU Scientific Library.
13       It generates n random samples from the distribution DIST using the dis‐
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EXAMPLE

17       Here  is  an  example.   We generate 10000 random samples from a Cauchy
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21            gsl-randist  0 10000 cauchy 30 | gsl-histogram -100 100 200 > his‐
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24       A plot of the resulting histogram will show the familiar shape  of  the
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27            awk '{print $1, $3 ; print $2, $3}' histogram.dat | graph -T X
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SEE ALSO

31       gsl(3), gsl-histogram(1).
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AUTHOR

35       gsl-randist  was  written  by James Theiler and Brian Gough.  Copyright
36       1996-2000; for copying conditions see the GNU General Public Licence.
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38       This manual page was added by the Dirk  Eddelbuettel  <edd@debian.org>,
39       the Debian GNU/Linux maintainer for GSL.
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