31 Dec
2009
31 Dec
'09
6:13 a.m.
David Arnold wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have any strategies for drawing random numbers from various statistics distributions in Metapost? For example, say, drawing 100 random numbers from a beta distribution?
Assuming you are using mkiv: create a lua function and use its calculated results to create the metapost code. Metapost only knows about uniformdeviate and normaldeviate, and metapost is not a good language to program mathematics in. Best wishes, Taco