You van use the gpl-ed statistics environment R "http://cran.r-project.org"; to do this, and if you want only the code (in c), you can get that from the source code distribution of R. (But if you want to distribute your program, beware the GPL)
Kjetil Halvorsen Tom wrote: > > Gen random numbers from distribution > > I need to generate random numbers from a Beta and a Gamma distribution. In > both cases the mean and standard deviation are known. > > I do not have a statistics package but intend to write a program to accomplish > this and perform necessary calculations. > > Is this possible using the density functions for these distributions? > > ~Tom > > ================================================================= > Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about > the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ > ================================================================= ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
