/* Copyright � 1999 CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. CERN makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty. */ package sim.util.distribution; import ec.util.MersenneTwisterFast; /** Normal (aka Gaussian) distribution; See the <A HREF="http://www.cern.ch/RD11/rkb/AN16pp/node188.html#SECTION0001880000000000000000"> math definition</A> and <A HREF="http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/glosn.html#Normal Distribution"> animated definition</A>. <pre> 1 2 pdf(x) = --------- exp( - (x-mean) / 2v ) sqrt(2pi*v) x - 1 | | 2 cdf(x) = --------- | exp( - (t-mean) / 2v ) dt sqrt(2pi*v)| | - -inf. </pre> where <tt>v = variance = standardDeviation^2</tt>. <p> Instance methods operate on a user supplied uniform random number generator; they are unsynchronized. <dt> Static methods operate on a default uniform random number generator; they are synchronized. <p> <b>Implementation:</b> Polar Box-Muller transformation. See G.E.P. Box, M.E. Muller (1958): A note on the generation of random normal deviates, Annals Math. Statist. 29, 610-611. <p> @author wolfgang.hoschek@cern.ch @version 1.0, 09/24/99 */ public class Normal extends AbstractContinousDistribution { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1; protected double mean; protected double variance; protected double standardDeviation; protected double cache; // cache for Box-Mueller algorithm protected boolean cacheFilled; // Box-Mueller protected double SQRT_INV; // performance cache /** * Constructs a normal (gauss) distribution. * Example: mean=0.0, standardDeviation=1.0. */ public Normal(double mean, double standardDeviation, MersenneTwisterFast randomGenerator) { setRandomGenerator(randomGenerator); setState(mean,standardDeviation); } /** * Returns the cumulative distribution function. */ public double cdf(double x) { return Probability.normal(mean,variance,x); } /** * Returns a random number from the distribution. */ public double nextDouble() { return nextDouble(this.mean,this.standardDeviation); } /** * Returns a random number from the distribution; bypasses the internal state. */ public double nextDouble(double mean, double standardDeviation) { // Uses polar Box-Muller transformation. if (cacheFilled && this.mean == mean && this.standardDeviation == standardDeviation) { cacheFilled = false; return cache; }; double x,y,r,z; do { x = 2.0*randomGenerator.nextDouble() - 1.0; y = 2.0*randomGenerator.nextDouble() - 1.0; r = x*x+y*y; } while (r >= 1.0); z = Math.sqrt(-2.0*Math.log(r)/r); cache = mean + standardDeviation*x*z; cacheFilled = true; return mean + standardDeviation*y*z; } /** * Returns the probability distribution function. */ public double pdf(double x) { double diff = x-mean; return SQRT_INV * Math.exp(-(diff*diff) / (2.0*variance)); } /** * Sets the uniform random generator internally used. */ protected void setRandomGenerator(MersenneTwisterFast randomGenerator) { super.setRandomGenerator(randomGenerator); this.cacheFilled = false; } /** * Sets the mean and variance. */ public void setState(double mean, double standardDeviation) { if (mean!=this.mean || standardDeviation!=this.standardDeviation) { this.mean = mean; this.standardDeviation = standardDeviation; this.variance = standardDeviation*standardDeviation; this.cacheFilled = false; this.SQRT_INV = 1.0 / Math.sqrt(2.0*Math.PI*variance); } } /** * Returns a String representation of the receiver. */ public String toString() { return this.getClass().getName()+"("+mean+","+standardDeviation+")"; } }