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The Mersenne Twister is a general-purpose pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) developed in 1997 by Makoto Matsumoto (松本 眞) and Takuji Nishimura (西村 拓士). [1] [2] Its name derives from the choice of a Mersenne prime as its period length.
The noncentral F-distribution is implemented in the R language (e.g., pf function), in MATLAB (ncfcdf, ncfinv, ncfpdf, ncfrnd and ncfstat functions in the statistics toolbox) in Mathematica (NoncentralFRatioDistribution function), in NumPy (random.noncentral_f), and in Boost C++ Libraries.
The Box–Muller transform, by George Edward Pelham Box and Mervin Edgar Muller, [1] is a random number sampling method for generating pairs of independent, standard, normally distributed (zero expectation, unit variance) random numbers, given a source of uniformly distributed random numbers.
NumPy (pronounced / ˈ n ʌ m p aɪ / NUM-py) is a library for the Python programming language, adding support for large, multi-dimensional arrays and matrices, along with a large collection of high-level mathematical functions to operate on these arrays. [3]
Gauss notation (also known as a Gauss code or Gauss words [1]) is a notation for mathematical knots. [2] [3] It is created by enumerating and classifying the crossings of an embedding of the knot in a plane. [2] [4] [5] It is named after the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855). Gauss code represents a knot with a sequence of ...
Regardless of whether the random variable is bounded above, below, or both, the truncation is a mean-preserving contraction combined with a mean-changing rigid shift, and hence the variance of the truncated distribution is less than the variance of the original normal distribution.
[1] [2] In other words, () is the probability that a normal (Gaussian) random variable will obtain a value larger than standard deviations. Equivalently, () is the probability that a standard normal random variable takes a value larger than .
The inverse Gaussian distribution has several properties analogous to a Gaussian distribution. The name can be misleading: it is an "inverse" only in that, while the Gaussian describes a Brownian motion's level at a fixed time, the inverse Gaussian describes the distribution of the time a Brownian motion with positive drift takes to reach a ...