Package org.apache.commons.rng.sampling.distribution

Class RejectionInversionZipfSampler

java.lang.Object

org.apache.commons.rng.sampling.distribution.SamplerBase

org.apache.commons.rng.sampling.distribution.RejectionInversionZipfSampler

All Implemented Interfaces:

DiscreteSampler

public class RejectionInversionZipfSampler
extends SamplerBase
implements DiscreteSampler

Implementation of the Zipf distribution.

Since:

1.0

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
RejectionInversionZipfSampler(org.apache.commons.rng.UniformRandomProvider rng, int numberOfElements, double exponent)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
int	sample()	Rejection inversion sampling method for a discrete, bounded Zipf distribution that is based on the method described in Wolfgang Hörmann and Gerhard Derflinger.
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from class org.apache.commons.rng.sampling.distribution.SamplerBase

nextDouble, nextInt, nextInt, nextLong

Constructor Detail

RejectionInversionZipfSampler

public RejectionInversionZipfSampler(org.apache.commons.rng.UniformRandomProvider rng,
                                     int numberOfElements,
                                     double exponent)

Parameters:

rng - Generator of uniformly distributed random numbers.

numberOfElements - Number of elements.

exponent - Exponent.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if numberOfElements <= 0 or exponent <= 0.

Method Detail

sample

public int sample()

Rejection inversion sampling method for a discrete, bounded Zipf distribution that is based on the method described in

Wolfgang Hörmann and Gerhard Derflinger. "Rejection-inversion to generate variates from monotone discrete distributions",
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) 6.3 (1996): 169-184.

Specified by:

sample in interface DiscreteSampler

Returns:

a sample.

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class SamplerBase