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/*
* Copyright (c) 1982 Donald H. House <x@unknown.com>
* Copyright (c) 1989 Robert Allen <x@unknown.com>
*
* 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 your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
* 02110-1301, USA.
*/
#ifndef _GAUSS_H_
#define _GAUSS_H_
class gauss
{
public:
/**
* This function takes as parameters real valued mean and
* standard-deviation, and an integer valued seed. It returns a
* real number which may be interpreted as a sample of a normally
* distributed (Gaussian) random variable with the specified mean
* and standard deviation. After the first call to gauss, the seed
* parameter is ignored.
*
* The computational technique used is to pass a uniformly
* distributed random number through the inverse of the Normal
* Distribution function.
*/
static double gaussian(double, double, int);
};
#endif
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