Students T 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 Students T distribution with probability density function, \(f (X)\), where:

\[f(X) = \frac{\left(\frac{\nu - 1}{2}\right)!} {\sqrt{\nu \pi} \left(\frac{\nu}{2}\right)! \left(1 + \frac{X^2}{\nu}\right)^{\frac{\nu + 1}{2}}}\]

Here ν is the degrees of freedom, DF.

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

C Set the seed
    SEED(1) = 1234

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

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

C Generate N variates from the Students T distribution
    CALL DRANDSTUDENTST(N,DF,STATE,X,INFO)

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