Negative Binomial 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 Negative Binomial distribution with probability \(f (X)\) defined by:

\[f (X) = \frac{(M + X - 1)! P^X(1-P)^M}{X!(M-1)!},X=0,1,\dotsi\]
C Generate 100 values from the Negative Binomial distribution
    INTEGER LSTATE,N
    PARAMETER (LSTATE=16,N=100)
    INTEGER I,INFO,SEED(1),STATE(LSTATE)
    INTEGER M
    DOUBLE PRECISION P
    INTEGER X(N)

C Set the seed
    SEED(1) = 1234

C Read in the distributional parameters
    READ(5,*) M,P

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

C Generate N variates from the Negative Binomial distribution
    CALL DRANDNEGATIVEBINOMIAL(N,M,P,STATE,X,INFO)

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