# Generate 100,000 pairs of independent and identically distributed # exponentially distributed random variables with the same rate parameter # (namely, 2.5). Then compute histograms of one of them, along with # histograms for their sum and their product. # # See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_distribution # # Here I'm using a specified random-number seed so this example always # produces the same output for this web document: in everyday practice we # wouldn't do that. mlr -n \ --seed 0.25 \ --opprint \ seqgen --stop 100000 \ then put ' # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_transform_sampling func expo_sample(lambda) { return -log(1-urand())/lambda } $u = expo_sample(2.5); $v = expo_sample(2.5); $s = $u + $v; $p = $u * $v; ' \ then histogram -f u,s,p --lo 0 --hi 2 --nbins 50 \ then bar -f u_count,s_count,p_count --auto -w 20