gauss program

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Documentation for the gauss program is below, with links to related programs in the "see also" section.

{   version = 1.04; (* of gauss.p 2025 Feb 05}

(* begin module describe.gauss *)
(*
name
   gauss: generate a bunch of gaussianly distributed numbers

synopsis
   gauss(gaussp:in, data: out, genhisparameters: out, output: out)

files

   gaussp: parameter file controlling the program.
      Two numbers, one per line:
         seed: random seed to start the process
         total: the number of numbers to generate

   data: the input file for genhis.  this is a set of numbers which
      should have gaussian distribution if the random number generator
      is a reasonable one.  It will be N(0,1), a normal distribution
      with mean 0 and standard deviation 1.

   genhisparameters: control file for genhis.  Copy or move to the
      name genhisp to control genhis.  This gives the user flexibility.

   output: messages to the user

description

   Test of a random number generator by creating a Gaussian
   distribution of numbers for plotting by genhis.  Further details of
   the method are in email communications appended to the end of this
   program in a comment.

example
  seed := 0.5;
  total := 10000;

see also
   tstrnd.p, genhis.p, gentst.p

@articleBox.Muller1958,
author = "G. E. P. Box
 and Mervin E. Muller",
title = "{A Note on the Generation of Random Normal Deviates}",
journal = "The Annals of mathematical statistics",
volume = "29",
pages = "610--611",
pmid = "",
pmcid = "",
note = "\url
{https://projecteuclid.org/journals/annals-of-mathematical-statistics/volume-29/issue-2/A-Note-on-the-Generation-of-Random-Normal-Deviates/10.1214/aoms/1177706645.pdf}",
year = "1958"}

author
   Thomas D. Schneider

bugs
   none known

technical notes
%
   the constant n in procedure randomtest determines how many times
   the random number generator will be in a series of tests.  if n
   is small, the the test will be poor, if it is large then the test may
   take a long time.

*)
(* end module describe.gauss *)
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