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(* source: h:\modula\defs\NormRNG.DEF v1.0a revised: 88.06.09
author: G.Greene, AGCS D/429 (NS/TS), 312/681-7783 created: 88.06.09
function:
This is the definition for a module which exports generators of pseudo-
random variates of the normal and related distributions.
history:
88.06.09 1.0a initial release.
*)
DEFINITION MODULE NormRNG;
(* Return as the function value a normally-distributed LongReal value, with
mean=0 and standard deviation=1.
*)
PROCEDURE StdNormalVariate ( ): LONGREAL;
(* Return as the function value a normally-distributed real value, with
mean given by the first parameter, and standard deviation given by the
second parameter.
*)
PROCEDURE NormalVariate (
(*in*) Mean: REAL;
(*in*) StdDev: REAL ): LONGREAL;
(* [2]
source: h:\modula\defs\NormRNG.DEF v1.0a revised: 88.06.09 *)
(* Return as the function value a lognormally-distributed real value, with
location and shape parameters given by the function parameters. More
commonly, one would want to specify the mean and standard deviation of
of the values. Since the computations involved in providing that form
for the parameters would substantially slow the process of generating
variates, a separate procedure, LognormalParameters, is provided below
to do the conversion once for a given distribution. The output values
from that procedure may then be used as the parameters for this one.
*)
PROCEDURE LognormalVariate (
(*in*) Location: REAL;
(*in*) Shape: REAL ): LONGREAL;
(* The expected value (variate mean) and standard deviation of values for a
lognormal distribution are given as the first and second parameters,
respectively. Set the third and fourth parameters to the corresponding
location and shape parameters for use with procedure LognormalVariate,
above.
*)
PROCEDURE LognormalParameters (
(*in*) Mean: REAL;
(*in*) StdDev: REAL;
(*out*) VAR Location: REAL;
(*out*) VAR Shape: REAL );
(* Return as the function value a Cauchy-distributed real value, with
location (median) and scale parameters given by the function parameters.
*)
PROCEDURE CauchyVariate (
(*in*) Median: REAL;
(*in*) Scale: REAL ): LONGREAL;
END NormRNG.