Numpy Random Number Generators

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Thu Apr 30 21:48:19 PDT 2009


dsimcha wrote:
> I've ported a large portion of the Numpy random number generation library to
> D.  (I excluded the uniform random number generators because Phobos and Tango
> already have good implementations of these, and a few distributions because
> they were obscure and hard to test properly.  I may add the obscure
> probability distributions later.)
> 
> The results appear pretty good  (I added unit tests that make sure the results
> are sane while I was at it).
> 
> The module is licensed under the BSD license.  The code is available at:
> http://dsource.org/projects/dstats/browser/trunk/random.d
> 
> Docs are at http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dstats/docs/random.html
> although there's not much there.  If you understand the probability
> distribution you're trying to sample from, it's pretty self-explanatory.  If
> not, a little bit of ddoc isn't going to help, and Wikipedia is probably a
> better choice.
> 

These look great. Could I convince you to contribute them to Phobos?

Andrei


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