rng_normal Interface Reference

Functions returning a variate x with normal probability. More...

Public Member Functions
real(dp) function	ran_ugaussian ()
	Computes a Gaussian random variate, with mean zero and standard deviation sigma = 1
real(dp) function	ran_gaussian_sym (scale)
	computes a Gaussian random variate, with mean zero and standard deviation sigma
real(dp) function	ran_gaussian (loc, scale)
	ran_gaussian computes a Gaussian random variate, with mean zero and standard deviation sigma

Detailed Description

Functions returning a variate x with normal probability.

Valid uses:

USE numfor, only rng_normal
x = rng_normal()
x = rng_normal(scale)
x = rng_normal(loc, scale)

Member Function/Subroutine Documentation

ran_gaussian()

real(dp) function ran_gaussian	(	real(dp), intent(in)	loc,
		real(dp), intent(in)	scale )

ran_gaussian computes a Gaussian random variate, with mean zero and standard deviation sigma

Returns

Random number

Parameters

[in]	loc	Center of distribution
[in]	scale	standard deviation

ran_gaussian_sym()

real(dp) function ran_gaussian_sym

(

real(dp), intent(in)

scale

)

computes a Gaussian random variate, with mean zero and standard deviation sigma

Returns

Random number

Parameters

[in]

scale

standard deviation

ran_ugaussian()

real(dp) function ran_ugaussian

Computes a Gaussian random variate, with mean zero and standard deviation sigma = 1

Returns

Random number

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The documentation for this interface was generated from the following file:

• /home/fiol/Trabajos/fortran/numfor/src/randist/gauss.f90