On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 2:18:50 PM UTC-5, François Fayard wrote: > > Back to the original discussion, I just came across sprandn in another > thread. How the hell do you want someone to have a feeling of this > function? I still have no idea what the n is for. >
Providing information only--random samplers with an "n" suffix mean the sample is from a normal distribution. Breaking it down: sp prefix: this is a method for sparse matrices rand: that produces random samples n: from a normal distribution
