Class Pareto

java.lang.Object

eduni.distributions.Generator

eduni.distributions.Pareto

All Implemented Interfaces:

ContinuousGenerator, Seedable

public class Pareto
extends Generator
implements ContinuousGenerator

A random number generator based on the pareto distribution. automatically generated by MetaGenerator

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class eduni.distributions.Generator

distrib

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Pareto(double scale, double shape)	the seed is aumatically provided by the SeedGenerator
Pareto(double scale, double shape, long seed)	The constructor with which a specific seed is set for the random number generator

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
double	sample()	Generate a new random number.

Methods inherited from class eduni.distributions.Generator

getSeed, reseed, setSeed

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface eduni.distributions.Seedable

getSeed, reseed, setSeed

Constructor Details

Pareto

public Pareto(double scale,
 double shape)

the seed is aumatically provided by the SeedGenerator

Pareto

public Pareto(double scale,
 double shape,
 long seed)

The constructor with which a specific seed is set for the random number generator

Parameters:

seed - The initial seed for the generator, two instances with the same seed will generate the same sequence of numbers

Method Details

sample

public double sample()

Generate a new random number.

Specified by:

sample in interface ContinuousGenerator

Returns:

The next random number in the sequence