From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19951 invoked by alias); 21 Dec 2004 17:00:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19898 invoked from network); 21 Dec 2004 17:00:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.ukfsn.org) (217.158.120.143) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 21 Dec 2004 17:00:05 -0000 Received: from localhost (lucy.ukfsn.org [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CAE2E6D5B; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:57:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (lucy.ukfsn.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24557-11; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:57:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (dsl-80-42-182-225.access.uk.tiscali.com [80.42.182.225]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078EEE6D5A; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:57:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by localhost with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CgmgE-0000wE-00; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:16:10 +0000 From: Brian Gough MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16840.19530.535732.244729@network-theory.co.uk> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:00:00 -0000 To: jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr Cc: gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com Reply-To: gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: discret random distributions: test In-Reply-To: <41C5C6DC.5010904@wanadoo.fr> References: <41C5C6DC.5010904@wanadoo.fr> X-SW-Source: 2004-q4/txt/msg00125.txt.bz2 Jerome BENOIT writes: > I have just read in the source (GSL 1.5) the tests made > to check the discret random distributions, but I cannot > clearly figure out the idea behind the test: > any hint is welcome. randist/test.c samples the distribution and compares the resulting histogram with the pdf itself to see if they are compatible within statistical errors. -- Brian Gough Network Theory Ltd, Commercial support for GSL --- http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gsl/