Re: Gnumeric simulation functions

From: "Morten Welinder" <mwelinder gmail com>
To: "Manohar D. Rao" <md_rao hotmail com>
Cc: gnumeric-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Gnumeric simulation functions
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:35:38 -0500

All you need is to take the inverse of the cdf on a uniform [0,1] random
number.  That's true for any continious distribution.

For the triangular one, it looks like G(p) from
    http://www.brighton-webs.co.uk/distributions/triangular.asp
will work.  Math not checked.

M.

References:
- Gnumeric simulation functions
  - From: Manohar D. Rao

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