Chapter 10: Statistics and Random Number Generation

Routines

Statistics

Univariate summary statistics.................................................................. simple_statistics

One-way frequency table.............................................................................. table_oneway

Chi-squared one-sample goodness-of-fit test............................................. chi_squared_test

Correlation..................................................................................................... covariances

Multiple linear regression.................................................................................. regression

Polynomial regression.............................................................................. poly_regression

Numerical ranking................................................................................................... ranks

Random Numbers

Retrieves the current value of the seed.................................................... random_seed_get

Initialize a random seed......................................................................... random_seed_set

Selects the uniform (0, 1) generator............................................................. random_option

Generates pseudorandom numbers........................................................... random_uniform

Generates pseudorandom normal numbers................................................. random_normal

Generates pseudorandom Poisson numbers.............................................. random_poisson

Generates pseudorandom gamma numbers............................................... random_gamma

Generates pseudorandom beta...................................................................... random_beta

Generates pseudorandom
standard exponential.......................................................................... random_exponential

Low-discrepancy sequence

Generates a shuffled Faure sequence....................................................... faure_next_point


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