redhat man page for pdl::histogram

Histogram(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      Histogram(3)

NAME
       PDL::RandVar::Histogram -- Arbitary distribution random variables

VERSION
	 Current version is 1.0

SYNOPSIS
	 use PDL::RandVar::Histogram
	 $m = new PDL::RandVar::Histogram($dist);

DESCRIPTION
       Histogram random variables are useful for generating distributions to match arbitrary vector (N-D) data.  On initialization, you feed in a
       clumped array whose value is proportional to the probability of landing in each bin.   You get back values of indices into the original
       vector.	If you ask for it, you can get subsampling in the mantissa of each index.

History
	 1.0   11-Dec-2001 -- Basic functionality & testing (CED)

Author, license, no warranty
       This file copyright(C) 2001, 2002 Craig DeForest (cdeforest@solar.stanford.edu).  This software/documentation may be distributed under the
       same terms as PDL itself (license available at http://pdl.perl.org). This package comes with NO WARRANTY.

Bugs:
       Runs a little slow -- hooking into the gnu package will work better.

Functions
       new

       Construct a new histogram-distribution random variable

	 Signature: (See PDL::PDL::RandVar::new)

	 $a = new PDL::RandVar::Histogram(<size>,<opt>);

       Options:

       seed
	  A number to use as the seed.

	 $a = new PDL::RandVar::Histogram($dist);
	 $xy = sample $a;

perl v5.8.0							    2002-05-16							      Histogram(3)