Re: [Help-gsl] Zipf Random Number Generator

[Martin Jansche]

Devroye gives a rejection method for sampling from the Zipf
distribution here: http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/chapter_ten.pdf

-- mj

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Michael Duerr <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a function that can produce random numbers that are
> Zipf-distributed?
> Something like:
>
> int zipfian(double skew, int N),
>
> where skew is the skew factor (e.g. 0.4) and N the upper limit of the range
> (e.g. [0, N) )
>
> Does gsl hold something similar or can you provide me a reference for a
> sample implementation?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
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