BETA Distribution - 5.2 English - 68552

AOCL API Guide (68552)

Document ID
68552
Release Date
2025-12-29
Version
5.2 English

Generates a vector of random variates from a beta distribution with probability density function, \(f (X)\), where:

\[f (X) = \frac{\Gamma(A+B)}{\Gamma(A)\Gamma(B)}X^{A-1}(1-X)^{B-1}\]

if \(0 \le X \le 1 \ and \ A, B > 0.0\), otherwise \(f (X) = 0\).

C Generate 100 values from the Beta distribution
    INTEGER LSTATE,N
    PARAMETER (LSTATE=16,N=100)
    INTEGER I,INFO,SEED(1),STATE(LSTATE)
    DOUBLE PRECISION A,B
    DOUBLE PRECISION X(N)

C Set the seed
    SEED(1) = 1234

C Read in the distributional parameters
    READ(5,*) A,B

C Initialize the STATE vector
    CALL DRANDINITIALIZE(1,1,SEED,1,STATE,LSTATE,INFO)

C Generate N variates from the Beta distribution
    CALL DRANDBETA(N,A,B,STATE,X,INFO)

C Print the results
    WRITE(6,*) (X(I),I=1,N)