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Distfun

Distribution functions
(28095 downloads for this version - 96612 downloads for all versions)
Details
Version
1.1.1
Authors
Michael Baudin
Prateek Papriwal
Pierre Lecuyer
Luc Devroye
Jean-Philippe Chancelier
Michael A. Malcolm
Cleve B. Moler
George Marsaglia
Arif Zaman
Barry W. Brown
Owner Organization
Scilab Enterprises
Maintainers
Michael BAUDIN
prateek papriwal
Administrator ATOMS
Stéphane MOTTELET
License
Dependencies
Creation Date
December 13, 2016
Source created on
Scilab 6.0.x
Binaries available on
Scilab 6.0.x:
Windows 64-bit Linux 64-bit
Scilab 6.1.x:
Windows 64-bit macOS Linux 64-bit
Install command
--> atomsInstall("distfun")
Description
            The goal of this toolbox is to provide accurate distribution functions. 
The provided functions are designed to be compatible with Matlab.

The goals of this toolbox are the following.
 * All functions are tested with tables (actually, csv datasets).
   The tests includes accuracy tests, so that the accuracy 
   should by from 13 to 15 significant digits in most cases.
 * For each distribution, we have 
   * the probability distribution function (PDF)
   * the cumulated distribution function (CDF)
   * the inverse CDF
   * the random number generator
   * the statistics (mean and variance)
 * The CDF provides the upper and the lower tail of the 
   distribution, for accuracy reasons. 
 * The uniform random numbers are of high quality.
   The default is to use the Mersenne-Twister generator.   
 * Each function has a consistent help page.
   This removes confusions in the meaning 
   of the parameters and clarifies the differences 
   with other computing languages (e.g. R).
   
The design is similar to Matlab's distribution functions. 
A significant difference with Matlab's function is that both 
the upper and lower tails are available in "distfun", while 
Matlab only provides the lower tail. 
Hence, "distfun" should provide a better accuracy when 
probabilities close to 1 are computed (e.g. p=0.9999). 

There are many interesting, positive, differences with Scilab, Stixbox, or other
tools. For a full set of motivations, please read :

http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/distfun/
   
Features
--------

For each distribution x, we provide five functions :
 * distfun_xcdf : x CDF
 * distfun_xinv : x Inverse CDF
 * distfun_xpdf : x PDF
 * distfun_xrnd : x random numbers
 * distfun_xstat : x mean and variance

Distributions available :
 * Beta (with x=beta)
 * Binomial (with x=bino)
 * Chi-Squared (with x=chi2)
 * Extreme Value (with x=ev)
 * Exponential (with x=exp)
 * F (with x=f)
 * Gamma (with x=gam)
 * Geometric (with x=geo)
 * Histogram (with x=histo)
 * Hypergeometric (with x=hyge)
 * Kolmogorov-Smirnov (with x=ks)
 * LogNormal (with x=logn)
 * LogUniform (with x=logu)
 * Multinomial (with x=mn)
 * Multivariate Normal (with x=mvn)
 * Negative Binomial (with x=nbin)
 * Noncentral F (with x=ncf)
 * Noncentral T (with x=nct)
 * Noncentral Chi-Squared (with x=ncx2)
 * Normal (with x=norm)
 * Poisson (with x=poi)
 * T (with x=t)
 * Truncated Normal (with x=tnorm)
 * Uniform Discrete (with x=unid)
 * Uniform (with x=unif)
 * Weibull (with x=wbl)

Tutorial
 * dispfun_tutorial : A tutorial of the Distfun toolbox.
 * dispfun_plots : A collection of distribution function plots.

Support
 * distfun_betainc : Regularized Incomplete Beta function
 * distfun_erfcinv : Inverse erfc function
 * distfun_gammainc : Regularized incomplete Gamma function
 * distfun_genericpdf : Compute the PDF from the CDF.
 * distfun_getpath : Returns path of current module
 * distfun_histocreate : Creates an histogram
 * distfun_inthisto : Discrete histogram
 * distfun_permrnd : Random permutation
 * distfun_plotintcdf :  Plots an integer CDF
 * distfun_verboseset : Set verbose mode.

Weibull fitting
 * distfun_wblfit : Weibull parameter estimates
 * distfun_wblfitmm : Weibull parameter estimates with method of moments
 * distfun_wbllike : Weibull negative log-likelihood
 * distfun_wblplot : Weibull plot

Other fitting functions
 * distfun_uniffitmm : Uniform parameter estimates with method of moments
 * distfun_betafitmm : Beta parameter estimates with method of moments
 * distfun_gamfitmm : Gamma parameter estimates with method of moments

Random Number Generator
 * rng_overview : An overview of the Random Number Generators of the Distfun
toolbox.
 * distfun_genget : Get the current random number generator
 * distfun_genset : Set the current random number generator
 * distfun_seedget : Get the current state of the current random number
generator
 * distfun_seedset : Set the current state of the current random number
generator
 * distfun_streamget : Get the current stream
 * distfun_streaminit : Initializes the current stream
 * distfun_streamset : Set the current stream

Multivariate vectors
 * distfun_vectorrnd : Random vectors.
            
Files (6)
[1.70 MB]
Windows 64-bit binary for Scilab 6.1.x

[1.70 MB]
Source code archive

[2.74 MB]
Windows 64-bit binary for Scilab 6.0.x
Windows version (x64)
Automatically generated by the ATOMS compilation chain

[2.00 MB]
Linux 64-bit binary for Scilab 6.0.x
Linux version (x86_64)
Automatically generated by the ATOMS compilation chain

[2.90 MB]
macOS binary for Scilab 6.1.x

[3.00 MB]
Linux 64-bit binary for Scilab 6.1.x

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Comments (2)     Leave a comment 
Comment from Hibr List -- March 23, 2019, 11:33:25 PM    
On macOS (10.12 Sierra) and Scilab 6.0.1 I can compile distfun but I cannot install it w/
atomsUnstall. I get the error (German): 

atomsDESCRIPTIONread: die Datei
'/Applications/scilab-6.0.1.app/Contents/MacOS/share/scilab/.atoms/tmp_1553379758/distfun/DESCRIPTION'
existiert nicht.

Means it missed the DESCRIPTION file. This is a problem I faced w/ some other toolboxes w/
Scilab 6.0.1. On another toolbox I created the file manually but it did not solved the
problem. Is that a 6.0.1 issue on macOS?
Comment from Hani Ibrahim -- November 11, 2019, 07:56:05 PM    
Distfun for macOS
=================
For macOS user I compiled Distfun 1.1.1 for macOS. You can download it at
hani-ibrahim.de/public/scilab/

Install it via -->
atomsInstall("~/Downloads/distfun-1.1.1_6.0-bin.x86_64.darwin.zip")

You may need to adjust the path. Works for me on macOS Mojawe (10.14) and Scilab 6.0.2.

Have fun.
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