UniformRandomSimple Class Reference

Inheritance diagram for UniformRandomSimple:

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Detailed Description

Basic uniform random number generator.

This class generates real-valued random numbers uniformly distributed between [0.0, 1.0). This is a replacement for the random number function drand48() from stdlib.h.

Author:

Bill Smart

Date:

November 2001

Version:

1.0

Definition at line 235 of file Random.H.

Public Member Functions
	UniformRandomSimple (const unsigned long seed=1UL)
Generate samples
double	number ()
	Generate a sample from the random variable.
Moments of the random variable
double	mean () const
double	variance () const
double	stdDev () const

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

UniformRandomSimple

(

const unsigned long

seed = 1UL

)

[inline]

Alocates an instance of the class and sets the random number seed.

Parameters:

seed

Random number seed. Do not set this to zero.

Definition at line 240 of file Random.H.

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Member Function Documentation

double number

(

)

[inline, virtual]

Generate a sample from the random variable.

This function generates a sample from the random variable represented by the class instance.

Returns:

A sample from the random variable.

Implements RealRandom.

Definition at line 244 of file Random.H.

References MTRand::rand().

double mean

(

)

const [inline, virtual]

Returns:

The mean of the random variable.

Implements RealRandom.

Definition at line 249 of file Random.H.

double variance

(

)

const [inline, virtual]

Returns:

The variance of the random variable.

Implements RealRandom.

Definition at line 250 of file Random.H.

double stdDev

(

)

const [inline, virtual]

Returns:

The standard deviation of the random variable.

Implements RealRandom.

Definition at line 251 of file Random.H.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• /home/fwph/code/wurde/rde/core/Random.H

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