Newran02C - a random number generator library

23 April, 2006

Copyright (C) 1989, 1995, 1998, 2002: R B Davies

    Overview
    Getting started
    Descriptions of the classes to be accessed by the user
    Descriptions of the supporting classes
    Generating numbers from other distributions
    Other people's code
    Files included in this package
    Class structure
    To do
    History
    To online documentation page

This is a C++ library for generating sequences of random numbers from a wide variety of distributions. It is particularly appropriate for the situation where one requires sequences of identically distributed random numbers since the set up time for each type of distribution is relatively long but it is efficient when generating each new random number. The library includes classes for generating random numbers from a number of distributions and is easily extended to be able to generate random numbers from almost any of the standard distributions.

Comments and bug reports to robert at statsresearch.co.nz [replace at by you-know-what].

For updates and notes see http://www.robertnz.net.

There are no restrictions on the use of newran except that I take no liability for any problems that may arise from its use.

I welcome its distribution as part of low cost CD-ROM collections.

You can use it in your commercial projects. However, if you distribute the source, please make it clear which parts are mine and that they are available essentially for free over the Internet.