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/* randist/lognormal.c
*
* Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 James Theiler, Brian Gough
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
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*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
* WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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*/
#include <config.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_math.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_rng.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_randist.h>
/* The lognormal distribution has the form
p(x) dx = 1/(x * sqrt(2 pi sigma^2)) exp(-(ln(x) - zeta)^2/2 sigma^2) dx
for x > 0. Lognormal random numbers are the exponentials of
gaussian random numbers */
double
gsl_ran_lognormal (const gsl_rng * r, const double zeta, const double sigma)
{
double u, v, r2, normal, z;
do
{
/* choose x,y in uniform square (-1,-1) to (+1,+1) */
u = -1 + 2 * gsl_rng_uniform (r);
v = -1 + 2 * gsl_rng_uniform (r);
/* see if it is in the unit circle */
r2 = u * u + v * v;
}
while (r2 > 1.0 || r2 == 0);
normal = u * sqrt (-2.0 * log (r2) / r2);
z = exp (sigma * normal + zeta);
return z;
}
double
gsl_ran_lognormal_pdf (const double x, const double zeta, const double sigma)
{
if (x <= 0)
{
return 0 ;
}
else
{
double u = (log (x) - zeta)/sigma;
double p = 1 / (x * fabs(sigma) * sqrt (2 * M_PI)) * exp (-(u * u) /2);
return p;
}
}