generate normal distribution with exactly N elements in Y bins
r,distribution,normal-distribution,binning
If your range of data is from -2:2 with 15 intervals and the sample size is 77 I would suggest the following to get the expected heights of the 15 intervals: rn <- dnorm(seq(-2,2, length = 15))/sum(dnorm(seq(-2,2, length = 15)))*77 [1] 1.226486 2.084993 3.266586 4.716619 6.276462 7.697443 8.700123 9.062576 8.700123...
Fit distribution to given frequency values in R
r,distribution,estimation,probability-density,weibull
Here is a better attempt, like before it uses optim to find the best value constrained to a set of values in a box (defined by the lower and upper vectors in the optim call). Notice it scales x and y as part of the optimization in addition to...
SAS: when using PROC TRANSREG, ODS does not generate boxcox
This error happens due to ODS setting. proc transreg can generate both plot and data. Because I want to save the data generated by proc transreg, I must turn the ODS graphics off. Using one line ods graphics off; before the macro (or changing the setting of ODS registry). The...
Python code for counting number of zero crossings in an array
This produces the same result: import numpy as np my_array = np.array([80.6, 120.8, -115.6, -76.1, 131.3, 105.1, 138.4, -81.3, -95.3, 89.2, -154.1, 121.4, -85.1, 96.8, 68.2]) ((my_array[:-1] * my_array[1:]) < 0).sum() gives: 8 and seems to be the fastest solution: %timeit ((my_array[:-1] * my_array[1:]) < 0).sum() 100000 loops, best of...
Find intersection between a beta and a normal distribution
r,distribution,normal-distribution,beta-distribution
Use uniroot(). uniroot(function(x) dbeta(x, 1, 2)-dnorm(x, 0, 1), c(0, 1)) ## $root ## [1] 0.862456 ## ## $f.root ## [1] 5.220165e-05 ## ## $iter ## [1] 3 ## ## $estim.prec ## [1] 6.103516e-05 This solves an equation dbeta(x, ...) == dnorm(x, ...) w.r.t. x (in the inverval [0,1], as this...
Netezza/PureData - Bad distribution key chosen in HASH JOIN
performance,distribution,netezza,query-plans
The workaround is to force exhaustive planner to be used. set num_star_planner_rels = X; -- Set X to very high. According to IBM Netezza team, queries with more than 7 entities (# of tables) will use a greedy query planner called "Snowflake". At 7 or less entities, it will use...
iOS 8 Framework Distribution issue while uploading on app store
ios,frameworks,app-store,distribution
Your client need to sign with their own cert as the app is compiler and linked with your framework. Using your framework doesn't required your cert to sign unless you did something wrong when building the framework.
linear distribution in c++ using rand()
c++,algorithm,random,distribution
For PDF proportional to some linear function, CDF will be proportional to x squared . Thus, sampling would require sqrt(), something along the lines x = xmin + sqrt(urand())*(xmax - xmin); y = ymin + sqrt(urand())*(ymax - ymin); where urand() is U(0,1) RNG (probably equal to rand()/RAND_MAX, but I've abandoned...
Add a python flag cx_freeze to executable
python,optimization,distribution,cx-freeze,pyglet
You can use the same -O flag when you run cx_freeze to generate your final build, meaning that the cx_freeze generated bytecode will already be optimized. From the cxfreeze docs: cxfreeze hello.py --target-dir dist Further customization can be done using the following options: ... -O optimize generated bytecode as per...
Generate random numbers with logarithmic distribution and custom slope
javascript,algorithm,math,statistics,distribution
You mention a logarithmic distribution, but it looks like your code is designed to generate a truncated geometric distribution instead, although it is flawed. There is more than one distribution called a logarithmic distribution and none of them are that common. Please clarify if you really do mean one of...
How big should big_num be for big_num % small_num to give a good distribution?
It shouldn't matter much, although being a multiple of N (or close to one) will help around the edges, especially for smaller M. The more important thing is that your random numbers are evenly distributed between 0 and M.
Enumerating distibutions
combinations,permutation,distribution
Based on your response in the comments above, here's a recursive solution in Ruby: $resolution = 100 $res_f = $resolution.to_f def allocate(remainder, bin_number, all_bin_values, number_of_bins) if bin_number >= number_of_bins all_bin_values << remainder / $res_f puts all_bin_values.join(", ") all_bin_values.pop else remainder.downto(1) do |i| if remainder - i >= number_of_bins - bin_number...
C++, how to use a subset of all types
There is no such traits in standard library. You can just write something like template<typename T> struct is_distribution : public std::false_type {}; and specialize for each type, that is distribution template<typename T> struct is_distribution<std::uniform_int_distribution<T> > : public std::true_type {}; Then just template<typename Distr> typename std::enable_if<is_distribution<Distr>::value>::type print_random(Distr& d) { cout <<...
Random distribution of items in list up to a maximum count
The following code should work. I've assumed here that the total number of items in the list shouldn't change. public List<List<Item>> distribute(List<Item> list, int y, int z) { int x = list.size(); int nLists = (int) Math.ceil((double)x/y); // Create result lists List<List<Item>> result = new ArrayList<>(); for (int j =...
Generate many sample pairs from normal distribution
r,statistics,distribution,random-sample
x <- lapply(c(1:20000), function(x){ lapply(c(1:2), function(y) rnorm(50,2.5,3)) }) This produces 20000 paired samples, where each sample is composed of 50 observations from a N(2.5,3^2) distribution. Note that x is a list where each slot is a list of two vector of length 50. To t-test the samples, you'll need to...
How to generate random numbers to produce a non-standard distributionin PHP
interesting question. I'll sum it up: We need a funcion f(x) f returns an integer if we run f a million times the average of the integer is x(or very close at least) I am sure there are several approaches, but this uses the binomial distribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution Here is the...
Merge two uneven sets of items
Well, I've been playing around with this and have come up with a solution that will work for my purposes. I essentially mix the larger items into the smaller items and loop back through until I run out of larger items. For Each item In smallerList mergedList.add(smallerID) Next itemsRemaining =...
implementing Poisson distribution in c++
c++,distribution,factorial,poisson
One workaround to deal with large n's is calculating the distribution in the log domain: X = ((e^-lambda)*(lambda^n))/n! ln X = -lambda + n*ln(lambda) - Sum (ln(n)) return e^X ...
What is upper and lower bound in a uniform distribution?
The lower and upper bounds specify the range over which the probability is uniform. For example, imagine you go to a bus stop where the bus arrives once every five minutes. If you walk to the bus stop at random times, your wait at the stop will have a lower...
create distribution from a list and generate random numbers which follow that distribution in Python
You first need to "bucket up" the range of interest, and of course you can do it with tools from scipy &c, but for the sake of understanding what's going on a little Python version might help - with no optimizations, for ease of understanding: import collections def buckets(discrete_set, amin=None,...
Generalized Extreme Value Distribution in C++ (GEV)
I used wolfram alpha to find the IDCF of the GEV for ξ!=0: here and ξ==0: here Here is an implementation: #include <iostream> #include <random> #include <cmath> double icdf(double x, double mu, double sigma, double xi) { if(xi == 0) { return (mu - sigma * log(-log(x))); } else {...
Matlab Distribution Sampling
matlab,distribution,sampling,random-sample
So, you can use this, for example: y = 0.8 + rand*0.4; this will generate random number between 0.8 and 1.2. because rand creates uniform distribution I believe that rand*0.4 creates the same ;) ...
AngularJS: find closest value in multiple-values object
javascript,arrays,angularjs,distribution
I might have found the solution myself. Thanks to @pankajparkar I understood that I was not saving values in a proper array. Starting from that I thought that an object would have been much more appropriate. So, gathered the numbers in a more "clean" object like: {"34":0.04,"35":0.1,"36":0.12,"37":0.14,"38":0.16,"39":0.18,"40":0.22,"41":0.28,"43":0.36,"44":0.38,"45":0.42,"46":0.48,"47":0.52,"48":0.6,"49":0.64,"50":0.7,"51":0.8,"52":0.88,"53":0.92,"54":0.94,"55":1} I am getting...
Why do the inverse t-distributions for small values differ in Matlab and R?
r,matlab,statistics,distribution,probability
It appears that R's qt may use a completely different algorithm than Matlab's tinv. I think that you and others should report this deficiency to The MathWorks by filing a service request. By the way, in R2014b and R2015a, -Inf is returned instead of NaN for small values (about eps/8...
fast generating 1000 means of sample points from truncated gamma distriution with 1000 different shapes and scales values in R
r,distribution,gamma-distribution
There are several things going on here. First, you calculate the scales as: scale.list <- runif(1000, max = 100000, min = 100000) but since min = max, all the values are identical. Second, you do not specify lb.arg or ub.arg, so I set them to 20 and 50 arbitrarily. Third,...
How to work with numeric probability distribution functions [closed]
Try the rv package. Note that if X is an exponential random variable with mean 1, then -log(X) has a standard Gumbel distribution.
Matlab Image Histogram Analysis: how do I test for an underlying bimodal distribution?
matlab,image-processing,histogram,distribution,vision
If you mean "distinguish" by "separate", then yes: The property you describe is called bimodality, i.e. you have 2 peaks that can be seperated by one threshold. So your question is actually "how do I test for an underlying bimodal distribution?" One option to do this programmatically is Binning. This...
Sample a random number following a distribution between two values
matlab,random,distribution,gaussian,sampling
Might use Irwin-Hall from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin%E2%80%93Hall_distribution Basically, min(IH(n)) = 0 max(IH(n)) = n peak(IH(n)) = n/2 Scaling to your [1.9...2.1] range v = 1.9 + ((2.1-1.9)/n) * IH(n) It is bounded, very easy to sample, and at large n it is pretty much gaussian. You could vary n to get narrow...
Student's T Distributions in Excel VBA?
excel,vba,excel-vba,distribution
Excel can handle the T distribution: Sub test() Debug.Print Application.WorksheetFunction.T_Dist(0.95, 20, False) 'pdf value Debug.Print Application.WorksheetFunction.T_Dist(0.95, 20, True) 'cdf value End Sub Output: 0.247866113626846 0.823274027108808 ...
iTunes Connect: Company Name with Special Characters
ios,app-store,special-characters,itunesconnect,distribution
In my opinion contacting Apple will be a good idea, because according to iTunes Connect Developer Guide: Note: The first time you add an app is your only chance to set a company name distinct from your legal entity name . So my suggestion is don't take risk, contact Apple....
Select a random value according to a distribution , java equivalent [closed]
java,classification,distribution,decision-tree
Looking at the javadocs I found this https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Random.html#nextGaussian-- turns out the random number generator actually can implement many distributions. I'm not sure why they call it Random.nextGaussian() as it has mean=0 and std-1, it even says in the docs its actually a normal distribution. edit since you have a mean...
Netlogo - Sampling from a Beta-Pert Distribtuion
distribution,netlogo,gamma-distribution,beta-distribution
to-report random-pert [#minval #likeval #maxval] ;use pert params to draw from a beta distribution if not (#minval <= #likeval and #likeval <= #maxval) [error "wrong argument ranking"] if (#minval = #likeval and #likeval = #maxval) [report #minval] ;;handle trivial inputs let pert-var 1. / 36 let pert-mean (#maxval + 4...
Plot density distribution
plot,distribution,density-plot
hist is a nice way to see a distribution. See here for details.
Need algorithm for optimization issue of distribution points among the set of attractor points
algorithm,geometry,distribution,computational-geometry,mathematical-optimization
This is a linear program that can be solved by general LP solvers. It can also be modelled more specifically as a min-cost max-flow problem: Put the attractors on the left side of a bipartite graph and the points on the right side. Connect every attractor i on the left...
R: unexpected behavior of the fdwm() function (evmix package)
r,distribution,modeling,mixture-model,weibull
This error message is entirely as expected. When you run this program it provides a followup warning message: "numerical integration failed, ignore previous messages, optimisation will try again" which implies you can simply ignore this error from the "integrate" function. Why is this normal? Well that explanation needs some background...
Can't plot Zipf's law in R
Rather than roll your own calculation, it would be easier to use the tm package. Convert myTbl to a term document matrix (tdm) library(tm) tdm <- TermDocumentMatrix(myTbl) # there are many more clean up steps, but I am simplifying Then you you have not just Zipf but also Heaps and...
Random multivariate normal distribution
1) Use a library implementation, as suggested by Dima. Or, if you really feel a burning need to do this yourself: 2) Assuming you want to generate normals with a mean vector M and variance/covariance matrix V, perform Cholesky Decomposition on V to come up with lower triangular matrix L...
Incorrect probability density [closed]
excel,distribution,gaussian,normal-distribution
The results from NORM.DIST are correct... if you directly implement the Gaussian function in your sheet using: =(1/($F$8*SQRT(2*PI())))EXP( -((M3-$F$7)^2)/(2$F$8^2)) which is an implementation of the standard Gaussian function e.g. f(x) on: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GaussianFunction.html then the results exactly match Excel's NORM.DIST built in function. When you say the values "should be" in...
Distributions and internal state
c++,c++11,random,distribution,prng
Interesting question. So I was wondering if interfering with how the distribution works by constantly resetting it (i.e. recreating the distribution at every call of get_int_from_range) I get properly distributed results. I've written code to test this with uniform_int_distribution and poisson_distribution. It's easy enough to extend this to test another...
Trouble with 'fitdistrplus' package, t-distribution
Start is the initial guess for the parameters of your distribution. There are logs involved because it is using maximum likelihood and hence log-likelihoods. library(fitdistrplus) dat <- rt(100, df=10) fit <- fitdist(dat, "t", start=list(df=2)) ...
NaN error for gaussian random distribution
java,random,distribution,nan,gaussian
In your code dRandom1 can be negative, while real logarithms only take arguments from (0, +inf)
matlap GMM of multivariate distibutions
First, cov is the name of the covariance function, so you better call your variable e.g. sigma. Second, you create the cov variable to be a 4-D array with value 0 at cov(1,1,1,1) and 0.5 at cov(1,1,1,2). Depending on how the covariance matrices looks, the variable sigma can look different....
Distribution of values in a postgresql table
SQL Fiddle select quantity, count(*) from ( select user_name, count(*) as quantity from t where product_name = 'candle' group by user_name ) s group by quantity order by quantity ...
3 parameter Weibull fit in .NET
c#,.net,statistics,distribution,weibull
You don't necessarily need a 3-parameter Weibull. Your non-failing data is called right-censored and requires survival analysis. A straightforward maximum likelihood approach should work here using just a 2-parameter Weibull model.
Fitting three parameter log-normal distribution in R
In fact, it looks as though dlnorm3 (which is built into the FAdist package) already returns a zero probability when x<=thres, so plugging dlnorm3 straight into fitdistr appears to work fine: set.seed(12345) library(FAdist) library(MASS) X <- rlnorm3(n=100, shape = 2, scale = 1.5, thres = 1) fitdistr(X,dlnorm3,start=list(shape = 2, scale...
Discrete approximation to a bivariate normal distribution
r,statistics,distribution,normal-distribution
Here is a simple implementation. Like @DanielJohnson says you can just use the cdf form univariate normal, but it should be same as using the pmvnorm, shown below. The version using pnorm is much faster. ## Choose the matrix dimensions yticks <- xticks <- seq(-3, 3, length=100) side <- diff(yticks[1:2])...
using fitdist from fitdistplus with binomial distribution
Won't you always know the number of trials (i.e., the size parameter)? If so, then try fitBinom=fitdist(data=scorebinom, dist="binom", fix.arg=list(size=8), start=list(prob=0.3)) to estimate p and its error....
how to define your own distribution for fitdistr function in R with the help of lmomco function
fitdist is expecting a density/distribution function with named arguments. library("lmomco") library("fitdistrplus") ## reproducible: month <- c(27.6, 97.9, 100.6, 107.3, 108.5, 109, 112.4, 120.9, 137.8) Setup: lmom <- lmoms(month,nmom=5) #from lmomco package para <- pargev(lmom, checklmom=TRUE) dgev <- pdfgev #functions which are included in lmomco pgev <- cdfgev fitgev <- fitdist(month,...
Simulate from an (arbitrary) continuous probability distribution [duplicate]
Here is a way using the distr package, which is designed for this. library(distr) p <- function(x) (2/pi) * (1/(exp(x)+exp(-x))) # probability density function dist <-AbscontDistribution(d=p) # signature for a dist with pdf ~ p rdist <- r(dist) # function to create random variates from p set.seed(1) # for reproduceable...
FlotChart - Showing the distribution on hourly basis regardless of timestamp
charts,flot,distribution,graphic,hour
Just convert your timestamps to hours, for example like this: $.each(d, function (index, datapoint) { datapoint[0] = (new Date(datapoint[0])).getHours(); }); (If you want values with AM / PM change accordingly.) And of course remove the mode: "time" from your options. See this fiddle for the changed code. ...
SQL Server equivalent of Excel's TINV function
sql,sql-server,distribution,probability
SQL-Server does not incorporate a lot of statistical functions. tinv is not present in SQL-Server. The only way to add a tinv function, is to use a CLR-Function. Thus, the problem reduces itselfs to "How do I calculate tinv with the subset of C# allowed in SQL-Server ?". If you're...
How to randomly choose between few values with different probabilities in vb.net?
Urm, the simplest solution I can think so far is: Dim list As List(Of Object) Dim random As System.Random = New System.Random() Dim Countries() As String = {"China", "China", "China", "China", _ "Japan", "Japan", "Japan", _ "South Korea", _ "North Korea", _ "Taiwan"} For i As Integer = 1 To...
How should a certain percentage of evenly-distributed elements of a Python list be extracted?
python,list,distribution,percentage
This can trivially be achieved by setting a slice with a step: def select_elements(seq, perc): """Select a defined percentage of the elements of seq.""" return seq[::int(100.0/perc)] In use: >>> select_elements(range(10), 50) [0, 2, 4, 6, 8] >>> select_elements(range(10), 33) [0, 3, 6, 9] >>> select_elements(range(10), 25) [0, 4, 8] You...
Weighted average distribution algorithm
algorithm,optimization,distribution
Let z be a real parameter. My understanding of the problem is that you want to find z such that, when bucket i is allocated max(MINi, min(MAXi, Wi z)), the sum of allocations equals x. Here's an O(n log n)-time algorithm (there's probably a linear-time one, but if it does...
Matlab Calculating mean of distribution quantile in a for-loop
matlab,loops,for-loop,distribution,quantile
Your test variable is a three-dimensional variable, so when you do test2 = test(:,1); and then test2(:) <VaR_Calib_EVT/100 it's not the same as in your second example when you do test(:,i)<(VaR_Calib_EVT(:,i)/100) To replicate the results of your first example you could explicitly do the test2 assignment inside the loop, which...
Calculate the modes in a multimodal distribution in R
I constructed something on my own using your mm data. First let's plot the density of mm in order to visualise the modes: plot(density(mm)) So, we can see there are 2 modes in this distribution. One around 600 and one around 1000. Let's see how to find them. In order...
Creating a discrete distribution in Visual Studio
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/random/discrete_distribution/discrete_distribution You are initializing it with iterators so you need to use this constructor template< class InputIt > discrete_distribution( InputIt first, InputIt last ); So I'm guessing it should be std::discrete_distribution<int&> dist(weights.begin(), weights.end()); But I haven't used discrete_distribution before....
Matlab: What are the ways to determine the distribution of the data
matlab,statistics,distribution
If I understand correctly, you are asking how to decide which distribution to choose once you have a few fits. There are three major metrics (IMO) for measuring "goodness-of-fit": Chi-Squared Kolmogrov-Smirnov Anderson-Darling Which to choose depends on a large number of factors; you can randomly pick one or read the...
Crashlytics distribution for app with multiple flavors
android,gradle,distribution,crashlytics
Ohh, I did miss something.. Don't forget to add your flavor name to: crashlyticsUploadDistribution<FLAVOR>Release ...
The ± 2 window in Word similarity of NLP
A ± 2 window means 2 words to the left and 2 words to the right of the target word. For target word "silence", the window would be ["gavel", "to", "the", "court"], and for "hammer", it would be ["when", "the", "struck", "it"].
Estimate parameters of Frechet distribution using mmedist or fitdist(with mme) error
You will need to make non-trivial changes to the source of mmedist -- I recommend that you copy out the code, and make your own function foo_mmedist. The first change you need to make is on line 94 of mmedist: if (!exists("memp", mode = "function")) That line checks whether "memp"...
Random distribution of items in list with exact number of occurences
I deleted my other answer because it was simply wrong! Then it occurred to me that there is a much simpler method: public static List<List<Item>> distribute(List<Item> items, int y, int z) { // Create list of items * z List<Item> allItems = new ArrayList<>(); for (int i = 0; i...
How to generate random numbers when given the value of a probability density function?
random,numbers,distribution,probability
The most straightforward way that I can see is this. Assuming that you have have large number of points {f(X1),--,f(Xn)}, plot them as distribution and fit a generalized Gaussian distribution curve through them. After this, you can use rejection sampling to generate further numbers from the same distribution.
Need to calculate the percentage of distribution
A simple, if rather naive, scheme is to sum the absolute differences between your observations and a perfectly uniform distribution red = abs(4 - 7/4) = 9/4 blue = abs(0 - 7/4) = 7/4 orange = abs(2 - 7/4) = 1/4 purple = abs(1 - 7/4) = 3/4 for a...
Getting a pdf from scipy.stats in a generic way
To evaluate the pdf at abscissas, you would pass abcissas as the first argument to pdf. To specify the parameters, use the * operator to unpack the param tuple and pass those values to distr.pdf: pdf = distr.pdf(abscissas, *param) For example, import numpy as np import scipy.stats as stats distrNameList...
distribute a list in python
from itertools import izip_longest as izip_l, chain config = {'A': 3, 'B': 4, 'C': 2} # Reconstruct the list of lists expanded = [[k] * config[k] for k in config] # Just zip them and ignore the None print[item for item in chain.from_iterable(izip_l(*expanded)) if item] If the count is too...
What are the loc and scale parameters in scipy.stats.maxwell?
python,numpy,scipy,distribution
The loc parameter always shifts the x variable. In other words, it generalizes the distribution to allow shifting x=0 to x=loc. So that when loc is nonzero, maxwell.pdf(x) = sqrt(2/pi)x**2 * exp(-x**2/2), for x > 0 becomes maxwell.pdf(x, loc) = sqrt(2/pi)(x-loc)**2 * exp(-(x-loc)**2/2), for x > loc. The doc string...
Generate 0 entity in a run
simulation,distribution,exponential-distribution
It's not an error to get zero. With exponential interarrival times and a rate of 3 per hour, the number of occurrences in an hour has a Poisson distribution with λ=3. The probability of getting n outcomes is e-λλn/n! which for n=0 is just under 0.05. In other words, you...
Triangular random number generator [closed]
You haven't said what you are trying to achieve. From looking at that Wikipedia article, if you want to generate different values for x, it seems to me that you need to say something like, if (rand < f(a,b,c)) { x = a + Math.Sqrt(rand * (b-a) * (c-a)); }...
How to reproduce Excel's TDIST function using Math.NET
c#,excel,statistics,distribution,mathnet
I was very close. My Math.NET example was equivalent to (1 - TDIST(0.84, 8009, 2)), so I merely needed to subtract that from 1: double result = 1 - (2 * (1 - StudentT.CDF(0, 1, 8009, 0.84))) ...
How to compare the distributions of two vectors in R?
python,r,distribution,kernel-density
I would plot the empirical cumulative distribution function. This makes sense because the comparison of these two functions is also the basis for the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test for the significance of the difference of the two distributions. There are at least two options to plot these functions in R: plot(ecdf(data$X.ofTotal),col="green",xlim=c(0,1),verticals =...
Error in R: x must be numeric
There are lots of things wrong here. for(i in 1:simsize=simsize) should be throwing an error: > for(i in 1:simsize=simsize) { print(i)} Error: unexpected '=' in "for(i in 1:simsize=" Better is for(i in seq_len(simsize)) Then x <- function(ran.func) is not doing what you thought it was; it is returning a function...
Check the return values from function Gammad and Truncate (from package distr and truncdist)
r,distribution,truncation,gamma-distribution
From the rgamma help page: "Invalid arguments will result in return value NaN, with a warning." If this is what you see, you could use ow <- options("warn") options(warn=2) G0 <- try(Gammad(scale = s, shape = sh), silent=TRUE) if(inherits(G0, "try-error")) # handle invalid arguments options(warn=ow) ...
How to generate random numbers from log-normal distribution with a given mean and SD in SAS?
function,macros,sas,distribution,random-sample
What you need is the inverse cumulative distribution function. This is the function that is the inverse of the normalized integral of the distribution over the entire domain. So at 0% is your most negative possible value and 100% is your most positive. Practically though you would calmp to something...
Simulation: send packets according to exponential distribution
simulation,distribution,exponential
What you're doing is called a time-step simulation, and can be terribly inefficient. Each tick in your master clock for loop represents a delta-t increment in time, and in each tick you have a laundry list of "did this happen?" possible updates. The larger the time ticks are, the lower...
Javascript: uniform length of subarrays [duplicate]
javascript,arrays,distribution,content-length
Simple maths. If You have n items and want to split them into k chunks, every chunk will have n / k items. But what if n / k isn't an integer? Then some of the chunks will have n / k rounded down items and some will have n...
How to create a function that returns a random number from the LEVY distribution in Lua? [closed]
Use rejection sampling on the graph of the Lévy PDF [answer from user: lhf] Example of code: function rejectionSampling() repeat local x = random.uniform(1) local y = random.uniform(1.5) -- PDF maximum peak at x=1/3 --> y~1.45 fx = math.sqrt(1/(2*math.pi))*math.exp(-1/(2*x))/(x^1.5) --PDF until y < fx return x end ...
How to calculate the integral of log-normal distribution with MATLAB
matlab,statistics,integration,distribution,symbolic-math
Similar to an answer several months ago, the Statistics Toolbox doesn't support the Symbolic Toolbox currently. Therefore, you can proceed by hard coding the PDF itself and integrating it: d = exp(-(log(x)-mu)^2/(2*sigma^2))/(x*sigma*sqrt(2*pi)); int(d, x, 0, 10); Or you can use the logncdf function, which may be cleaner....