• dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com> Apr 30 2009
• Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> Apr 30 2009
• dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com> May 01 2009

dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com> writes:

I've ported a large portion of the Numpy random number generation library to
D.  (I excluded the uniform random number generators because Phobos and Tango
already have good implementations of these, and a few distributions because
they were obscure and hard to test properly.  I may add the obscure
probability distributions later.)

The results appear pretty good  (I added unit tests that make sure the results
are sane while I was at it).

The module is licensed under the BSD license.  The code is available at:
http://dsource.org/projects/dstats/browser/trunk/random.d

Docs are at http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dstats/docs/random.html
although there's not much there.  If you understand the probability
distribution you're trying to sample from, it's pretty self-explanatory.  If
not, a little bit of ddoc isn't going to help, and Wikipedia is probably a
better choice.

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

dsimcha wrote:
 I've ported a large portion of the Numpy random number generation library to
 D.  (I excluded the uniform random number generators because Phobos and Tango
 already have good implementations of these, and a few distributions because
 they were obscure and hard to test properly.  I may add the obscure
 probability distributions later.)
 
 The results appear pretty good  (I added unit tests that make sure the results
 are sane while I was at it).
 
 The module is licensed under the BSD license.  The code is available at:
 http://dsource.org/projects/dstats/browser/trunk/random.d
 
 Docs are at http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dstats/docs/random.html
 although there's not much there.  If you understand the probability
 distribution you're trying to sample from, it's pretty self-explanatory.  If
 not, a little bit of ddoc isn't going to help, and Wikipedia is probably a
 better choice.
 


These look great. Could I convince you to contribute them to Phobos?

Andrei

dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com> writes:

== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org)'s article
 dsimcha wrote:
 I've ported a large portion of the Numpy random number generation library to
 D.  (I excluded the uniform random number generators because Phobos and Tango
 already have good implementations of these, and a few distributions because
 they were obscure and hard to test properly.  I may add the obscure
 probability distributions later.)

 The results appear pretty good  (I added unit tests that make sure the results
 are sane while I was at it).

 The module is licensed under the BSD license.  The code is available at:
 http://dsource.org/projects/dstats/browser/trunk/random.d

 Docs are at http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dstats/docs/random.html
 although there's not much there.  If you understand the probability
 distribution you're trying to sample from, it's pretty self-explanatory.  If
 not, a little bit of ddoc isn't going to help, and Wikipedia is probably a
 better choice.


 Andrei


I would certainly be willing to grant permission for these to be included in
Phobos.  The only problem is the original code that I ported is BSD licensed,
meaning you have to include all the relevant disclaimers.  I place no additional
restrictions on it, but for Phobos, the BSD license's requirements might be too
restrictive.