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authorStefan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>2008-08-21 16:41:34 +0000
committerStefan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>2008-08-21 16:41:34 +0000
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-"""\
-Core Random Tools
-=================
+"""
+========================
+Random Number Generation
+========================
+
+==================== =========================================================
+Utility functions
+==============================================================================
+random Uniformly distributed values of a given shape.
+bytes Uniformly distributed random bytes.
+random_integers Uniformly distributed integers in a given range.
+random_sample Uniformly distributed floats in a given range.
+permutation Randomly permute a sequence / generate a random sequence.
+shuffle Randomly permute a sequence in place.
+seed Seed the random number generator.
+==================== =========================================================
+
+==================== =========================================================
+Compatibility functions
+==============================================================================
+rand Uniformly distributed values.
+randn Normally distributed values.
+ranf Uniformly distributed floating point numbers.
+randint Uniformly distributed integers in a given range.
+==================== =========================================================
+
+==================== =========================================================
+Univariate distributions
+==============================================================================
+beta Beta distribution over ``[0, 1]``.
+binomial Binomial distribution.
+chisquare :math:`\\chi^2` distribution.
+exponential Exponential distribution.
+f F (Fisher-Snedecor) distribution.
+gamma Gamma distribution.
+geometric Geometric distribution.
+gumbel Gumbel distribution.
+hypergeometric Hypergeometric distribution.
+laplace Laplace distribution.
+logistic Logistic distribution.
+lognormal Log-normal distribution.
+logseries Logarithmic series distribution.
+negative_binomial Negative binomial distribution.
+noncentral_chisquare Non-central chi-square distribution.
+noncentral_f Non-central F distribution.
+normal Normal / Gaussian distribution.
+pareto Pareto distribution.
+poisson Poisson distribution.
+power Power distribution.
+rayleigh Rayleigh distribution.
+triangular Triangular distribution.
+uniform Uniform distribution.
+vonmises Von Mises circular distribution.
+wald Wald (inverse Gaussian) distribution.
+weibull Weibull distribution.
+zipf Zipf's distribution over ranked data.
+==================== =========================================================
+
+==================== =========================================================
+Multivariate distributions
+==============================================================================
+dirichlet Multivariate generalization of Beta distribution.
+multinomial Multivariate generalization of the binomial distribution.
+multivariate_normal Multivariate generalization of the normal distribution.
+==================== =========================================================
+
+==================== =========================================================
+Standard distributions
+==============================================================================
+standard_cauchy Standard Cauchy-Lorentz distribution.
+standard_exponential Standard exponential distribution.
+standard_gamma Standard Gamma distribution.
+standard_normal Standard normal distribution.
+standard_t Standard Student's t-distribution.
+==================== =========================================================
+
+==================== =========================================================
+Internal functions
+==============================================================================
+get_state Get tuple representing internal state of generator.
+set_state Set state of generator.
+==================== =========================================================
"""