SSJ
V. 1.2.5.

umontreal.iro.lecuyer.randvar
Class NegativeBinomialGen

java.lang.Object
  extended by umontreal.iro.lecuyer.randvar.RandomVariateGen
      extended by umontreal.iro.lecuyer.randvar.RandomVariateGenInt
          extended by umontreal.iro.lecuyer.randvar.NegativeBinomialGen
Direct Known Subclasses:
PascalConvolutionGen

public class NegativeBinomialGen
extends RandomVariateGenInt

This class implements random variate generators having the negative binomial distribution. Its mass function is

p(x) = nCr(n + x - 1, x)pn(1 - p)x        for x = 0, 1,...,

where nCr(n, x) is the number of combinations of x elements among n, n >= 1 and 0 <= p <= 1.

No local copy of the parameters n and p is maintained in this class. The (non-static) nextInt method simply calls inverseF on the distribution.


Constructor Summary
NegativeBinomialGen(RandomStream s, NegativeBinomialDist dist)
          Creates a new generator for the distribution dist, using stream s.
 
Method Summary
 int nextInt()
          Generates a random number (an integer) from the discrete distribution contained in this object.
static int nextInt(RandomStream s, int n, double p)
          Generates a new variate from the negative binomial distribution, with parameters n = n and p = p, using stream s.
 
Methods inherited from class umontreal.iro.lecuyer.randvar.RandomVariateGenInt
nextArrayOfInt
 
Methods inherited from class umontreal.iro.lecuyer.randvar.RandomVariateGen
getDistribution, getStream, nextArrayOfDouble, nextDouble, setStream
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

NegativeBinomialGen

public NegativeBinomialGen(RandomStream s,
                           NegativeBinomialDist dist)
Creates a new generator for the distribution dist, using stream s.

Method Detail

nextInt

public int nextInt()
Description copied from class: RandomVariateGenInt
Generates a random number (an integer) from the discrete distribution contained in this object. By default, this method uses inversion by calling the inverseF method of the distribution object. Alternative generating methods are provided in subclasses.

Overrides:
nextInt in class RandomVariateGenInt
Returns:
the generated value

nextInt

public static int nextInt(RandomStream s,
                          int n,
                          double p)
Generates a new variate from the negative binomial distribution, with parameters n = n and p = p, using stream s.


SSJ
V. 1.2.5.

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