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To: Greg Walker <greg.walker@vanderbilt.edu>
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Subject: Re: histogram
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Greg Walker writes:
 >  From examining the code, it appears that sampling from pdf's is 
 > only valid for uniform histograms. Can anyone verify this?
 > 

It should work for histograms with non-uniform bin sizes.  If there is
a discrepancy between the code and documentation let me know.

regards
Brian Gough