Statistics/Normal distribution
Statistics/Normal distribution is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.
Normal (or Gaussian) distribution is a freqently used distribution in statistics. While most programming languages provide a uniformly distributed random number generator, one can derive normally distributed random numbers from a uniform generator.
- The task
- Take a uniform random number generator and create a large (you decide how large) set of numbers that follow a normal (Gaussian) distribution. Calculate the dataset's mean and stddev, and show the histogram here.
- Mention any native language support for the generation of normally distributed random numbers.
- Reference
- You may refer to code in Statistics/Basic if available.
Liberty BASIC
Uses LB Statistics/Basic <lang lb>call sample 100000
end
sub sample n
dim dat( n)
for i =1 to n
dat( i) =normalDist( 1, 0.2)
next i
'// show mean, standard deviation. Find max, min.
mx =-1000
mn = 1000
sum =0
sSq =0
for i =1 to n
d =dat( i)
mx =max( mx, d)
mn =min( mn, d)
sum =sum +d
sSq =sSq +d^2
next i
print n; " data terms used."
mean =sum / n print "Largest term was "; mx; " & smallest was "; mn range =mx -mn print "Mean ="; mean
print "Stddev ="; ( sSq /n -mean^2)^0.5
'// show histogram
nBins =50
dim bins( nBins)
for i =1 to n
z =int( ( dat( i) -mn) /range *nBins)
bins( z) =bins( z) +1
next i
for b =0 to nBins -1
for j =1 to int( nBins *bins( b)) /n *30)
print "#";
next j
print
next b
print
end sub
function normalDist( m, s) ' Box Muller method
u =rnd( 1) v =rnd( 1) normalDist =( -2 *log( u))^0.5 *cos( 2 *3.14159265 *v)
end function</lang>
100000 data terms used. Largest term was 4.12950792 & smallest was -4.37934139 Mean =-0.26785425e-2 Stddev =1.00097669
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PARI/GP
<lang parigp>rnormal()={ my(pr=32*ceil(default(realprecision)*log(10)/log(4294967296)),u1=random(2^pr)*1.>>pr,u2=random(2^pr)*1.>>pr); sqrt(-2*log(u1))*cos(2*Pi*u1) \\ Could easily be extended with a second normal at very little cost. }; mean(v)={
sum(i=1,#v,v[i])/#v
}; stdev(v,mu="")={
if(mu=="",mu=mean(v)); sqrt(sum(i=1,#v,(v[i]-mu)^2))/#v
}; histogram(v,bins=16,low=0,high=1)={
my(u=vector(bins),width=(high-low)/bins); for(i=1,#v,u[(v[i]-low)\width+1]++); u
}; show(n)={
my(v=vector(n,i,rnormal()),m=mean(v),s=stdev(v,m),h,sz=ceil(n/300));
h=histogram(v,,vecmin(v)-.1,vecmax(v)+.1);
for(i=1,#h,for(j=1,h[i]\sz,print1("#"));print());
}; show(10^4)</lang>
PureBasic
<lang purebasic>Procedure.f randomf(resolution = 2147483647)
ProcedureReturn Random(resolution) / resolution
EndProcedure
Procedure.f normalDist() ;Box Muller method
ProcedureReturn Sqr(-2 * Log(randomf())) * Cos(2 * #PI * randomf())
EndProcedure
Procedure sample(n, nBins = 50)
Protected i, maxBinValue, binNumber
Protected.f d, mean, sum, sumSq, mx, mn, range
Dim dat.f(n)
For i = 1 To n
dat(i) = normalDist()
Next
;show mean, standard deviation, find max & min.
mx = -1000
mn = 1000
sum = 0
sumSq = 0
For i = 1 To n
d = dat(i)
If d > mx: mx = d: EndIf
If d < mn: mn = d: EndIf
sum + d
sumSq + d * d
Next
PrintN(Str(n) + " data terms used.")
PrintN("Largest term was " + StrF(mx) + " & smallest was " + StrF(mn))
mean = sum / n
PrintN("Mean = " + StrF(mean))
PrintN("Stddev = " + StrF((sumSq / n) - Sqr(mean * mean)))
;show histogram
range = mx - mn
Dim bins(nBins)
For i = 1 To n
binNumber = Int(nBins * (dat(i) - mn) / range)
bins(binNumber) + 1
Next
maxBinValue = 1
For i = 0 To nBins
If bins(i) > maxBinValue
maxBinValue = bins(i)
EndIf
Next
#normalizedMaxValue = 70
For binNumber = 0 To nBins
tickMarks = Round(bins(binNumber) * #normalizedMaxValue / maxBinValue, #PB_Round_Nearest)
PrintN(ReplaceString(Space(tickMarks), " ", "#"))
Next
PrintN("")
EndProcedure
If OpenConsole()
sample(100000) Print(#CRLF$ + #CRLF$ + "Press ENTER to exit"): Input() CloseConsole()
EndIf</lang> Sample output:
100000 data terms used. Largest term was 4.5352029800 & smallest was -4.5405135155 Mean = 0.0012346541 Stddev = 0.9959455132 # ### ###### ########## ################## ############################ ######################################### ##################################################### ################################################################ ###################################################################### ###################################################################### ################################################################ ##################################################### ######################################### ############################# ################## ########## ###### ### #
Tcl
<lang tcl>package require Tcl 8.5
- Uses the Box-Muller transform to compute a pair of normal random numbers
proc tcl::mathfunc::nrand {mean stddev} {
variable savednormalrandom
if {[info exists savednormalrandom]} {
return [expr {$savednormalrandom*$stddev + $mean}][unset savednormalrandom]
}
set r [expr {sqrt(-2*log(rand()))}]
set theta [expr {2*3.1415927*rand()}]
set savednormalrandom [expr {$r*sin($theta)}]
expr {$r*cos($theta)*$stddev + $mean}
} proc stats {size {slotfactor 10}} {
set sum 0.0
set sum2 0.0
for {set i 0} {$i < $size} {incr i} {
set r [expr { nrand(0.5, 0.2) }]
incr histo([expr {int(floor($r*$slotfactor))}]) set sum [expr {$sum + $r}] set sum2 [expr {$sum2 + $r**2}]
}
set mean [expr {$sum / $size}]
set stddev [expr {sqrt($sum2/$size - $mean**2)}]
puts "$size numbers"
puts "Mean: $mean"
puts "StdDev: $stddev"
foreach i [lsort -integer [array names histo]] {
puts [string repeat "*" [expr {$histo($i)*350/int($size)}]]
}
}
stats 100 puts "" stats 1000 puts "" stats 10000 puts "" stats 100000 20</lang> Sample output:
100 numbers Mean: 0.49355955990390254 StdDev: 0.19651396178121985 *** ******* ************** *********************************** ******************************************************** ****************************************************************** ************************************************************************* ****************************************** ************************************** ************** 1000 numbers Mean: 0.5066940614105869 StdDev: 0.2016794788065389 * ***** ************** **************************** ********************************************************** **************************************************************** ************************************************************* ****************************************************** *********************************** ************ ********* * 10000 numbers Mean: 0.49980964730768285 StdDev: 0.1968441612522318 * ***** *************** ******************************* ***************************************************** ****************************************************************** ******************************************************************* **************************************************** ********************************* *************** ***** * 100000 numbers Mean: 0.49960438950922254 StdDev: 0.20060211160998606 * ** *** ****** ********* ************** ****************** *********************** ***************************** ******************************** ********************************** ********************************** ******************************** **************************** *********************** ****************** ************* ********* ****** *** ** *
The blank lines in the output are where the number of samples is too small to even merit a single unit on the histogram.